And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.
Mark LawrenceWhen you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.
Mark LawrenceEach day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
Mark LawrenceMemories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
Mark LawrenceWe die a little every day and by degrees weโre reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
Mark Lawrence