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“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.”

Quote by Mark Lawrence

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Prince of Fools

In this epic tale, the prince, known for his cunning and wit, navigates a treacherous political landscape, facing off against enemies and allies alike as he seeks to uncover the truth behind his destiny. more

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Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence, born on January 1, 1968, is a talented writer whose works span various literary genres. Known for his unique narrative style and profound thematic explorations, his writing has gained widespread recognition from readers and critics. more

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“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed compulsively, it is because he was extremely frightened. Above all, a justice which might examine itself, & recognize that all of us, a living quagmire, founded in darkness, & for this reason not a man's evil should be cosigned to another man's evil: so that the latter may not shoot to kill without restraint or censure. A justice which will not forget that we are all dangerous, & that at the hour when the executant of justice kills, he is no longer protecting us or seeking to eliminate a criminal; he is committing his own crime, which he has been harboring for a considerable time. At the hour of killing a criminal- at that very moment, an innocent man is being put to death. No, no, I am not asking for the sublime, nor for the things which gradually become the words which help me to sleep peacefully. Those of us who take refuge in the abstract are a mixture of forgiveness & vague charity. What I want is something much harsher & much more difficult: I want the terrestrial.”