Emma > Emma's Quotes

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.”
― Kent Haruf

“Cock is just another word for 'fool.' But you call someone a cunt, well..." The girl smiled. "You're implying a sense of malice there. An intent. Malevolent and self-aware. Don't think I name Consul Scaeva a cunt to gift him insult. Cunts have brains, Don Tric. Cunts have teeth. Someone calls you a cunt, you take it as a compliment. As a sign that folks believe you're not to be lightly fucked with.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People