{"author":"Mark Lawrence","author_id":"Mark+Lawrence","total_quotes":96,"quotes":[{"text":"The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["enemy","friend","jerk"],"id":7027,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["humor","humorous","prince-of-fools"],"id":12598,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["knife","memories","slice-of-life","the-broken-empire","weakness"],"id":36303,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["arms","battle","change","fear","feat","fight","own","warrior"],"id":37160,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["batle","coward","running","strategy"],"id":41921,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["breath","running","screaming"],"id":43494,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not until you’ve seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sliced open, and known that they weren’t ever getting back together again, and vomited your last two meals over the rocks . . . It’s not until then that you understand the business of swords properly and, if you’re a sensible man you vow to have nothing to do with it ever again.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["battle","combat","humor","prince-of-fools","sword","swords","the-red-queen"],"id":48174,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["gross","sad","sad"],"id":48968,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["children","silence"],"id":49417,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"The holy stone looked for all the world like a small iron pineapple, its surface divided into squares by deep grooves, a tarnished silver-steel handle or lever held tight to the side. In ancient times the pineapple was ever the symbol of welcome, though the church used the objects in a different way. Apparently, each theological student of good family and destined for high office was given one on beginning their training and forbidden from pulling the lever on pain of excommunication. A test of obedience they called it. A test of curiosity I called it. Clearly the church wanted bishops who lacked the imagination for exploration and questioning.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["church","humour","post-apocalyptic"],"id":50908,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}