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A review by abookgoblin
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
5.0
Still one of my favorite anti-hero stories. Fuck I love Jorg. And Gorgoth!!
Favorite quotes:
"War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing."
"The thorns taught me the game... You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all."
"Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire."
"Assassination is just murder with a touch more precision."
"'What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?'
'Your name and password.'
'My name is Honorous Jorg Ancrath, my password is divine right. Now open the fecking door.'"
"'I'd rather have eternity in shadows than divine bliss at the price you ask.' It wasn't true, but to speak otherwise, to take her hand rather than to bit it, would leave nothing of me, nothing but pieces.
... 'Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.'"
"In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as not, though, it'll be a matter of luck, or if it goes on too long, then it'll be the man who tires first that tends to die.
In the end it's about staying power. They should put that on headstones, 'Got tired.' Maybe not tired of life, but at least too tired to hold on to it."
"I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up."
Favorite quotes:
"War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing."
"The thorns taught me the game... You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all."
"Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire."
"Assassination is just murder with a touch more precision."
"'What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?'
'Your name and password.'
'My name is Honorous Jorg Ancrath, my password is divine right. Now open the fecking door.'"
"'I'd rather have eternity in shadows than divine bliss at the price you ask.' It wasn't true, but to speak otherwise, to take her hand rather than to bit it, would leave nothing of me, nothing but pieces.
... 'Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.'"
"In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as not, though, it'll be a matter of luck, or if it goes on too long, then it'll be the man who tires first that tends to die.
In the end it's about staying power. They should put that on headstones, 'Got tired.' Maybe not tired of life, but at least too tired to hold on to it."
"I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up."