Mark Lawrence Quotes

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.

They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side of belief and persuasion." If we are to counter violence by offering young people ways to think differently about their world and the choices before them, they must be empowered to recognize themselves in any analysis of violence, and in doing so to acknowledge that it speaks to their lives meaningfully.

Memories are worse than bullets.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

… the most uncouth … mental torture

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

In order to endure death and horror one tends to kill ones own humanity, which is a much greater danger than not being able to bear it.

Such persons are windows through which one looks into terrible worlds.