Mark Lawrence Quotes

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

What doesn't bend, breaks.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.