Laura

“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, 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, Red Sister

“They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”
― Mark Lawrence, 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, Red Sister