“It’s often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations that torment them with all the worst stuff of nightmare, all the horrors that could befall them. This provides an excellent arsenal when it comes to inflicting misery on others. And their final qualification is that they understand the fears of their victim better than the victim does himself.” ImaginationHorrorNightmareCowardTorturer Book:Prince of Fools Source: Prince of Fools
“I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.” WritingI CanMomentsShowsSpiritFearMy OwnSilenceDarknessHellHorrorQuietPagesBeatsPaintScarePaleBlankImitationShow MeBlank PagesQuiet Moments Book:Prince of Thorns Source: Prince of Thorns
“As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.” MenChildrenMomentsMotherMistakePathTakenChildhoodHe ManHorrorSafeCreaturesOur ChildrenLeavingBlowDisappointmentLimitationYour ChildrenBitternessExposedDiscoveringTheftTutorWrong Path Author:Mark Lawrence
“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.” MenFeelsDreamMightHappensFearEnemyWorstTerribleHorrorTortureDullWorst Enemy Book:Prince of Thorns Source: Prince of Thorns
