The Heretic Heir Quotes

“The acquisition of knowledge is never a bad thing; it is only the choices one makes upon that knowledge that may be good or evil.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“Dissatisfaction is the mother of all unrest. We all want to have enough, to be appreciated within our own spheres, to be seen and heard and to be treated with fairness.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“Such men are like flowers. Flowers are very pretty, but one can only regard them for so long before longing for the wisdom of a beautiful book.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“We do not learn to love those people we have lost less, nor feel the rent of their absence any less keenly.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“But I believe that the reader is the one who shapes words to their own meaning. A thousand people could read the same text and see a thousand different ideas. Writers and their books are but platforms for the imagination of a million minds. We can take nothing from books but that which is already possible in our own imaginations. The threat or the possibility created by words is already in us, and it is our divination of the meaning of words which brings either good or evil.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“Life is not the easy option; it never has been. But we were granted it, and all that we are granted, we must rejoice in. There is so much sweetness in life that we cannot taste unless we also sample the bitter, so much more joy we can contain if we are hollowed out by loss and sadness first. Life is a double-edged sword itself. Two sides to every life… and in order to nibble at the happiness of love, we must also sip from the cup of sorrow.”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“There are some people in this world who never act but for the satisfaction of their own wants,”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir

“It seems to me that men willing to risk the lives of their families for a chance at power have very little in the way of forethought for what might happen if they fail.   Over-confidence”
― G. Lawrence, The Heretic Heir