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Mark Lawrence Quote: “The optimist sets themself up for disappointment. I’m just aiming for a little realism.”

401. “The optimist sets themself up for disappointment. I’m just aiming for a little realism.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “And what was Ara if not a piece of her heart?”

402. “And what was Ara if not a piece of her heart?”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Would it really take a vengeful god to bring them all to ruin, or was it simply a case of handing sharp knives to toddlers and waiting for the bleeding to start?”

403. “Would it really take a vengeful god to bring them all to ruin, or was it simply a case of handing sharp knives to toddlers and waiting for the bleeding to start?”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”

404. “They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”

— Mark Lawrence

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

405. “Ruli spoke with the total conviction she reserved for all guesswork.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “There was no wheel of course, no golden gates, no hill, no dry lands. Just two brothers trying to right a wrong.”

406. “There was no wheel of course, no golden gates, no hill, no dry lands. Just two brothers trying to right a wrong.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Steady progress. That was the Ictha way. Any task could be overcome by steady, unrelenting progress.”

407. “Steady progress. That was the Ictha way. Any task could be overcome by steady, unrelenting progress.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “The universe doesn’t care about time. We care about time. Because we remember.”

408. “The universe doesn’t care about time. We care about time. Because we remember.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “She was used to being told not to ask questions. Adults didn’t like it. But she had always thought that they knew the answers and that they simply found it too irritating to supply them to a child on demand.”

409. “She was used to being told not to ask questions. Adults didn’t like it. But she had always thought that they knew the answers and that they simply found it too irritating to supply them to a child on demand.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Your eyes might occupy only a tiny fraction of what you present to the world but they are what each stranger seeks when they meet you, as if needing reassurance concerning the person that watches through them.”

410. “Your eyes might occupy only a tiny fraction of what you present to the world but they are what each stranger seeks when they meet you, as if needing reassurance concerning the person that watches through them.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Pride is stupid, pride is blind, but pride is also the backbone that runs through us:.”

411. “Pride is stupid, pride is blind, but pride is also the backbone that runs through us:.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Language is like a tree,” Logaris said apropos of nothing, his deep voice descending from on high as if declaiming a favourite poem. “It grows and changes too slowly for us to see, and yet we know that it was once a seed small enough to be lost in the breadth of our palm, and we know that one day it will topple and die and rot away.”

412. “Language is like a tree,” Logaris said apropos of nothing, his deep voice descending from on high as if declaiming a favourite poem. “It grows and changes too slowly for us to see, and yet we know that it was once a seed small enough to be lost in the breadth of our palm, and we know that one day it will topple and die and rot away.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “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.”

413. “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.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “A parent’s grief runs deeper than words can reach, novice. We speak them to help ourselves.”

414. “A parent’s grief runs deeper than words can reach, novice. We speak them to help ourselves.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Might we not be creating new and different demons whose most frightening trait is that they truly believe themselves to be angels?”

415. “Might we not be creating new and different demons whose most frightening trait is that they truly believe themselves to be angels?”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “If you love someone, let them go. Except when that would be really stupid, like in a crowd and they’re two and you’re their mother.”

416. “If you love someone, let them go. Except when that would be really stupid, like in a crowd and they’re two and you’re their mother.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Reading is a dangerous sport, never more so than when we turn the page and find ourselves there among the lines. Blunt Instruments, by Joshua Semple.”

417. “Reading is a dangerous sport, never more so than when we turn the page and find ourselves there among the lines. Blunt Instruments, by Joshua Semple.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “She was clean, fed, chosen, and special. And it was all her fault. And even if the library contained a million books and each book a million words, there couldn’t be among all that wisdom a single line that would convince her otherwise.”

418. “She was clean, fed, chosen, and special. And it was all her fault. And even if the library contained a million books and each book a million words, there couldn’t be among all that wisdom a single line that would convince her otherwise.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Memory is the scaffold on which we assemble ourselves.”

419. “Memory is the scaffold on which we assemble ourselves.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “He’d read that love was when the hurts of another became yours, every bit as sharp, even if you didn’t understand them.”

420. “He’d read that love was when the hurts of another became yours, every bit as sharp, even if you didn’t understand them.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “She felt her devils moving beneath her habit, their voices crying out for blood, and she found herself in agreement. The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.”

421. “She felt her devils moving beneath her habit, their voices crying out for blood, and she found herself in agreement. The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Some things when set in motion by the lightest touch cannot be stopped by a whole army.”

422. “Some things when set in motion by the lightest touch cannot be stopped by a whole army.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Wisdom is difficult to write down, harder to find amid the ocean of the unwise, and, when found, next to impossible to learn from a page. The wisdom to use knowledge must be earned rather than given. That takes time.”

423. “Wisdom is difficult to write down, harder to find amid the ocean of the unwise, and, when found, next to impossible to learn from a page. The wisdom to use knowledge must be earned rather than given. That takes time.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The knowledge that he couldn’t possibly read all the books on offer put a peculiar pressure on choosing his next read.”

424. “The knowledge that he couldn’t possibly read all the books on offer put a peculiar pressure on choosing his next read.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Information is like water – without it you won’t live long, too much and you’ll drown. And there’s a difference between truth and information. Even correct information is not the same as truth – truth does not mislead – correct information bereft of context can be more dangerous than a lie.”

425. “Information is like water – without it you won’t live long, too much and you’ll drown. And there’s a difference between truth and information. Even correct information is not the same as truth – truth does not mislead – correct information bereft of context can be more dangerous than a lie.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “You can’t go back. Time is a river and there’s no swimming against it. You can’t go back. Yesterday does not wait for you. The past is on fire. What you find when you return to it will be ashes.”

426. “You can’t go back. Time is a river and there’s no swimming against it. You can’t go back. Yesterday does not wait for you. The past is on fire. What you find when you return to it will be ashes.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “All of us have a shell, a skin between us and the world that we have to break each time we speak to it. Sometimes I wished mine were thinner.”

427. “All of us have a shell, a skin between us and the world that we have to break each time we speak to it. Sometimes I wished mine were thinner.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I had only one man who I couldn’t order, who at the very last would twist my head off rather than obey against his instinct. Everyone needs somebody like that around sometimes.”

428. “I had only one man who I couldn’t order, who at the very last would twist my head off rather than obey against his instinct. Everyone needs somebody like that around sometimes.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more.”

429. “We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past.”

430. “We are victims of our first friendships. They are the foundations of us. Each anchors us to our past.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Kindness carries a weight; it’s a burden all its own when you have nothing.”

431. “Kindness carries a weight; it’s a burden all its own when you have nothing.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.”

432. “What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “The black and white of truth blurred into grey under the relentless assault of an infinity of context, interpretation, perspectives, and opinion.”

433. “The black and white of truth blurred into grey under the relentless assault of an infinity of context, interpretation, perspectives, and opinion.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Most books require no key, and yet a closed mind cannot open them. Dressed in Chain, by Eli Nathan.”

434. “Most books require no key, and yet a closed mind cannot open them. Dressed in Chain, by Eli Nathan.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Men who are certain of everything – well, perhaps they’re not men at all.”

435. “Men who are certain of everything – well, perhaps they’re not men at all.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Hope,’ said Demus, ’is an essential tool in any torturer’s kit bag. Hope is the thing that we will torture ourselves with after he’s knocked off and gone home for the night.”

436. “Hope,’ said Demus, ’is an essential tool in any torturer’s kit bag. Hope is the thing that we will torture ourselves with after he’s knocked off and gone home for the night.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “She loved the library, or at least she loved books. She valued the knowledge and the passion they held. The memory of races and species beyond knowing. The culture and achievements of untold millennia.”

437. “She loved the library, or at least she loved books. She valued the knowledge and the passion they held. The memory of races and species beyond knowing. The culture and achievements of untold millennia.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The two saving graces of explosions are that from the outside they’re pretty and from the inside they’re quick.”

438. “The two saving graces of explosions are that from the outside they’re pretty and from the inside they’re quick.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The greater tragedy of our world is not the victims of cruelty, but that so many of those victims would, given the opportunity, stand in the shoes of their oppressors and wield the same whip with equal enthusiasm.”

439. “The greater tragedy of our world is not the victims of cruelty, but that so many of those victims would, given the opportunity, stand in the shoes of their oppressors and wield the same whip with equal enthusiasm.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.”

440. “A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Life’s cheap, easily spent. And if there’s any joy to be had it’s in the moments between. So, when you find something that makes you happy you take it with both hands, and you hold on to it for as long as you can.”

441. “Life’s cheap, easily spent. And if there’s any joy to be had it’s in the moments between. So, when you find something that makes you happy you take it with both hands, and you hold on to it for as long as you can.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I already told you: we choose sides with our gut. The words are to make us feel better afterwards.”

442. “I already told you: we choose sides with our gut. The words are to make us feel better afterwards.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “To sow knowing that you will not reap is an old kind of love, and love has always been the best key for unlocking the future.”

443. “To sow knowing that you will not reap is an old kind of love, and love has always been the best key for unlocking the future.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “There are few journeys more painful than going back to a place you haven’t seen in many years. If you are lucky, it will have changed beyond recognition and, by having done so, will allow you to ignore the still larger changes in yourself. No Returns: A Librarian’s Tale, by Ook Longarm.”

444. “There are few journeys more painful than going back to a place you haven’t seen in many years. If you are lucky, it will have changed beyond recognition and, by having done so, will allow you to ignore the still larger changes in yourself. No Returns: A Librarian’s Tale, by Ook Longarm.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “People fasten on to hatred for reasons that have little or nothing to do with fairness or reason. And neither fairness nor reason is a tool that will prise them free from it.”

445. “People fasten on to hatred for reasons that have little or nothing to do with fairness or reason. And neither fairness nor reason is a tool that will prise them free from it.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Choosing a book should be a private business, conducted in the secrecy of the aisles, not on display for strangers’ judgment.”

446. “Choosing a book should be a private business, conducted in the secrecy of the aisles, not on display for strangers’ judgment.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “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.”

447. “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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Mark Lawrence Quote: “We’re all the story we tell about ourselves, silly.” Another wave rocked them. “That’s all anyone ever is – the story they tell, and the stories told about them. Fiction captures more than facts do. That’s why the library keeps it. It’s the most important part of our memories.”

448. “We’re all the story we tell about ourselves, silly.” Another wave rocked them. “That’s all anyone ever is – the story they tell, and the stories told about them. Fiction captures more than facts do. That’s why the library keeps it. It’s the most important part of our memories.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Sometimes he wondered about that. About how a man might retrace his steps and yet still not return to the place he’d come from.”

449. “Sometimes he wondered about that. About how a man might retrace his steps and yet still not return to the place he’d come from.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The alphabet of scars exists so that those lessons need not be carved into our flesh a second time. Holocaust, author unknown.”

450. “The alphabet of scars exists so that those lessons need not be carved into our flesh a second time. Holocaust, author unknown.”

— Mark Lawrence

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