Quotes from Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

The way I'd put it, " said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

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.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.