Atlas > Atlas's Quotes

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“Here's a moment. 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.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.

Thorn waited. Fearless as flowers, bright, fragile, open to the sky. Brave, as only those who’ve already lost can be.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“Your death has not been waiting for your arrival at the appointed hour: it has, for all the years of your life, been racing towards you with the fierce velocity of time's arrow. It cannot be evaded, it cannot be bargained with, deflected or placated. All that is given to you is the choice: meet it with open eyes and peace in your heart, go gentle to your reward. Or burn bright, take up arms, and fight the bitch.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“Keep that fire. Use it. We're wild things us men, and when we remember it we're at our most dangerous”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“You will learn about pain, fear, rage, and control. You will learn how to balance the first three to achieve the fourth. And you will cary those lessons into Grey Class where I will put weapons in your hands and teach you what it is to be a Red Sister. In Grey Class I will teach you how to make the fuckers bleed”
― 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

“That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe:...Drowning?
Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?”
― Erin Hunter

“You cannot live with a paw in each world.”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

“Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.”
― Erin Hunter, A Dangerous Path

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“He wanted to meet history face-to-face. He wanted to be the blood in its veins, as it was in his”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“He worshipped the past with a strange fervour. It was, he liked to tell her, the weight all mankind was born to bear. The roots we did not choose, but chose us”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Who do you love the most?" It seemed like a dangerous query, the way it was asked: razored syllables, hungry breath beating, beating against the black. "Myself”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Time flies when you're plundering history”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“I am Farway Gaius McCarthy, son of Empra McCarthy. Birth date unavailable. With timelessness in my blood and nowhere calling to my heart”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“The world is a large place and time is even larger”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“This was the feeling Far travelled for. The exhilaration of running through an age not his own, battle-shout harsh on the air, a stranger among the strange”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Chaos was inevitable. Might as well roll with it”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“This fate had chosen her. It was only now, seventeen years later, that she chose it back.”
― Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

“Her, against a seasoned court. Her, against the tides of war. Her, against the king's assassin.”
― Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“If you are wise and lucky and live long as me, you will learn this pain is just a drop in the sea.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold