“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“All the world and more has rushed eternity’s length to reach this beat of your heart, screaming down the years. And if you let it, the universe, without drawing breath, will press itself through this fractured second and race to the next, on into a new eternity. Everything that is, the echoes of everything that ever was, the roots of all that will ever be, must pass through this moment that you own. Your only task is to give it pause—to make it notice.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“I was born for killing—the gods made me to ruin.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Thorn carried in each limb every hour of her training, every day and year bound into the muscle of her arms, written along the length of her legs, beaten into the hardness of stomach and thigh. She knew five dozen ways to kill, she knew them with a lover's intimacy, and in the execution perhaps lust also played its role—for what is lust but a hunger? And hunger must be fed.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.
Thorn waited. Fearless as flowers, bright, fragile, open to the sky. Brave, as only those who’ve already lost can be.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“It’s harder to forgive someone else your own sins than those uniquely theirs. Much harder.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Your death has not been waiting for your arrival at the appointed hour; it has, for all the years of your life, been racing towards you with the fierce velocity of time’s arrow. It cannot be evaded; it cannot be bargained with, deflected or placated. All that is given to you is the choice: Meet it with open eyes and peace in your heart, go gentle to your reward. Or burn bright, take up arms, and fight the bitch.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would we burn to make the world take note?”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“a book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat books with respect.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“The road to damnation is paved with tardy steps!”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Truth is an axe. Without judgement it’s swung in great circles, wounding everybody,”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“We’re wild things us men, and when we remember it we’re at our most dangerous.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“THERE IS, IN the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Shame can exert as much pressure as anger.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Anger had its place, it was a weapon not to be neglected, but so did patience, and Nona decided that control lay in deciding which to use and when. She”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“even the most sacred bonds could be broken under enough stress.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“Her death didn’t feel real yet. Nona stood there, casting no shadow, and found she could feel nothing for her friend. Some emotions are like that, too big to be seen from within, like the ice patterns, written across empty miles, which make sense only from a great height. She slumped, staggering as weariness caught up with her. She would find that distance in time, and there would be sorrow enough to make the dead weep, and she feared it.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“it remains for me to remind you that no matter what conditions you may face on your ranging, no matter what the trials, you are representatives of the church, ambassadors of the faith, and most of all, novices of Sweet Mercy Convent. I expect you to act accordingly. And remember. If anyone lays a hand on you . . . you have my permission to cut it off.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
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“It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
“In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from On the Road: the Original Scroll
“Death was precious. That didn't change the fact that life was limited.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Every Heart a Doorway
“Provider of moonbeams when I wanted full illumination.”
― Ivan Doig, quote from The Whistling Season
“... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, quote from How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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