Mark Lawrence > Quotes

“It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Nostalgia is the best and the worst feeling - complex - nothing has the ability to so delight and wound us simultaneously, except perhaps for love.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts - and that it's a blade we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“Hurts don't stop, but they fade into the shadows of what they were. That's sad. That something so vital, something that bit you so deep, can be eroded by time into a story that almost seems like it happened to someone else. Any hurt. The years have taken away her meaning. It lessens us.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“Did you ever meet someone clever who was truly happy?”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“Mythology was, he said, the product of history. Just as the trees of ancient forests fell and became buried and compacted by each subsequent generation, covered over, buried ever deeper until the crushing pressure of untold fathoms changed their structure into coal, history itself became buried by the flood of years and crystallized into myth.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy (1) — THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN

“You can’t step into the same river twice... [Y]ou cannot read the same book twice either. You are the river.”
― Mark Lawrence

“…Relationships were as much a part of people as water was a part of blood. Without water, blood was just a red dust.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“-"You told him to fuck off!"
-"I know what i did."
-"But he's the ferryman! He's Death with his scythe! He's the winged ones who take the warriors straight from the battlefield. He's-"
-"He's propably used to it. Dying's enough to give most people an attitude.”
― Mark Lawrence, Daughter of Crows

“Somehow the stories that never happened, ones that merely sprang from the dreaming of some long-dead author, were more true that the histories that might be found on the opposite shelf.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy (1) — THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN

“It’s always the books you don’t have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Ruli spoke with the total conviction she reserved for all guesswork.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Without guilt we would all be monsters. And memory is the ink with which we list our crimes.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“The library teaches us how to do this. Over and over again it has taught us enough to know how to burn our world to the bedrock, but not enough to stop us from doing so. There's a point that all societies reach.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“There's nothing brave in committing to a fight - you just need to understand that there's a scarier outcome waiting for you if you don't. Hesitation's the killer. They try to train hesitation out of you, but most people have it in their bones.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy (1) — THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN

“None of us really know what we're here for or what we are supposed to be doing. So we shout out, hoping someone will hear, hoping someone will hear, hoping someone will see us and reveal the great secret." Yute The Book That Wouldn't Burn”
― Mark Lawrence

“Synoth managed a wry smile through his beard. "It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait"

The Book That Wouldn't Burn, pg 463 ”
― Mark Lawrence

“Time can stutter, it can drag, crawl, run, race, and, on occasion, fly. But it's favorite form of locomotion has always been to skip. Few lives are lived without the punctuation of moments when we realize with sudden shock that a year, two years, maybe two dozen, have got behind us, sneaking by without permission and propelling us into a future we hardly imagined.”
― Mark Lawrence

“There’s something magical about a departed headache. It’s a shame the joy fades and you can’t appreciate not having one every moment of your life.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“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.”
― Mark Lawrence

“You can fly too,” Livira said.
“There’s nothing to it. It’s just a matter of not falling.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Held Her Heart

“One of the earliest philosophers told us you can't step in the same river twice. The library taught me that you can't read the same book twice either”
― Mark Lawrence

“The Prince and his brother, Orrin and Egan. Sareth said they would come back. She said they would come back to sniff around me again. That's just how she said it. As if they were dogs and I was a bitch in heat.
I don't think I am. In heat, that is. I can be a bitch. I can be a bitch every day. I made Maery Coddin cry today and I hardly meant to.”
― Mark Lawrence

“The greatest story can reach the stars…”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy 3-Book Collection Set - A Spellbinding Saga of Books, Secrets, and Destiny

“Who judges? Who decides what truth is and which truths to hand out? We take to ourselves the power of the almighty when we control it.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Your people call me a mathmagician,”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“Synoth managed a wry smile through his beard. "It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait"

The Book That Wouldn't Burn pg 463”
― Mark Lawrence

“I wish I could tell you that free and easy access to this information solves these problems. It doesn’t. People find their own wells of poison to drink from.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Fairness is something others try to impose at the surface level once they've fixed all the foundations in their favor.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live”
― Mark Lawrence