The Square of Sevens Quotes

“People like to say they seek the truth. Sometimes they even mean it. The truth is they crave the soft, quilted comfort of a lie. Tell them they’re going to be rich or fall in love, and they walk away whistling. Give them the hard, unvarnished truth, and you’re looking at trouble.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“If you wanted a saint, then you should have read a different book.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“When a man is powerful and evil, other people surround themselves with lies, until they’re not sure if they’re protecting him or protecting themselves.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Some roles we choose to play”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“PEOPLE LIKE TO say they seek the truth. Sometimes they even mean it. The truth is, they crave the warm embrace of a lie.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. —MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, DON QUIXOTE”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“as his father made gammon look wise.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“verisimilitude”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“The common folk call it magic.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Faced with their fortune, people open up like books, and if you understand the language of souls, then you can read them.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“True witches are rare in the modern age,” Father said. “More often than not, the finger of suspicion is pointed at women who have committed no crime greater than growing old without a husband.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“The trouble with being a child was people expected you to act like a child.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Too much sanity may be madness—and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.” Perhaps that is what Red is”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“The dead live on in our memories,’ she’d said to me once. ‘Sometimes they clamour so loudly their voices drown out the living.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Men were nothing but a world of trouble, with their threats and their desires and their greed.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Imagine a world,’ Trevithick said, ‘in which your clothes are sewn by an automaton tailor, your boots made by a clockwork cobbler, your wig by a peruke-making machine. Imagine your wealth tallied by a machine abacus, your carriage driven by a clockwork coachman, your verses written by an automaton poet.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Understand their fears and uncertainties, their limits and possibilities, and you understand their soul.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Some roles we choose to play, others are chosen for us. Sometimes those roles become indistinct from our true selves.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“Faced with their fortune, people open up like books, and if you understand the language of of souls, then you can read them.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“PEOPLE LIKE TO say they seek the truth. Sometimes they even mean it. The truth is they crave the warm embrace of a lie.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

“My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn't afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens