The Girl and the Stars
Mark Lawrence
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses.”
“There's a darkness in each of us, afraid to show itself, wrestling with such blunt tools as words and deeds to make itself known to the darkness in another person similarly hidden behind walls of camouflage, disguise, interpretation. Honesty is a knife that we can use to pare away those layers, but one slip, go too deep, and who knows what injuries might be inflicted … The wounds an honest tongue can open sometimes take a lifetime to heal.”
“It's what you do with time that makes it matter. I'd rather spend a year making new memories than a thousand wandering around in the same old ones.”
“Each of us plunges through our own existence, punching me-shaped holes through days, through weeks, through conversations. We're none of us one thing or the other; we're legion. There's a different Yaz inside your skull for everyday of your life. We deceive others. We deceive ourselves. We keep secrets that even we don't know and hold beliefs we don't understand. And in that state of profound, fundamental, primal ignorance, we still think we can sculpt the clay of our own selves. We think we know what to cut away, that we understand the consequences of excising greed.”
“I’d rather spend a year making new memories than a thousand wandering around in the same old ones.”
“we are all victims of our childhood, even good ones, for they made us what we are, and it’s a rare person who isn’t disappointed with that.”
“Omens are difficult and open to interpretation but if the oracle that touches your newborn dies moments later, frothing at the mouth, it is hard even with a mother’s love to think it a good sign.”
“We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past. The blows that drive those nails home are randomly struck, but they echo down all our days even so.”
“Might we not be creating new and different demons whose most frightening trait is that they truly believe themselves to be angels?”
“Yaz shrugged. ‘People get like that if they live long enough to turn grey. They think they’ve seen it all and have answers for everyone. But they’re so distant from living life that they forget that we all have different paths.”
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