Mark Lawrence Quotes


Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.


Citations

Lawrence, Mark. Prince of Fools. Ace Books, 2014.

Related Quotes

An example of this was the landing in the beaches of Normandy in WWII. Once on the beaches the allied troops had to win or die. Some of the most heroic fighting in American and English military history occurred on those beaches. Another was the Spanish Explorer Hernando Cortez who after landing in the New World, had his ships burned so that he and his soldiers had to conquer or they would die.


He had been mortally wounded in battle and asked the Duc de Bourbon to prop him up against a tree facing the enemy. Then enemy army was French also but abandoned the cause of the French King to fight with the more powerful Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. He was only going to die, but the enemy would remain traitors for ever. This was typical of the code of the Knights of which he is sometimes referred to as the Last of the Knights.


He and his personal aids were almost surrounded by the enemy. He was urged to retreat behind a wall. Instead he made this famous quote.


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  • Born: January 1, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Research Scientist

Mark Lawrence (born 1966) is an American-British novelist who wrote The Broken Empire trilogy of fantasy books. In 2014, Lawrence won the David Gemmell Legend Awards for best novel for Emperor of Thorns. He operates the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off.