Red Sister
Mark Lawrence
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.”
“Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.”
“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.”
“They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”
“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.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, jerk, young, death, lies, truth, friend, journey, book, old, enemy
