Grey Sister Quotes

“Never be so focused on picking a lock that you forget kicking down the door is also an option.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Nothing is as cruel as a righteous man.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Spend too long watching the long game and the short game will kill you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years. Why discard it?”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“your weaknesses have more to teach you than your strengths.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“It's when your power is taken, or given, away that you discover who your friends are, brother. There's a lesson for us all in that.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“The greatest threat to any faith is not other faiths or beliefs but the corruption and division of its own message”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“words are steps along a path—the important thing is to get where you’re going.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“There’s a paralysis in choice, especially when what’s at stake is more precious to a person than what they own.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“The hard part wasn’t staying the course, it was turning from it. Too many steps taken, and leaving would cease to be an option—at least leaving and remaining whole. That was true of many paths perhaps.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“You may be rocks but humanity is the tide and you only have to stand upon the sand to see how that contest concludes.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Those novices are my friends and I would die for them. I would face a terror for them that I haven’t the courage to stand against on my own behalf.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“A parent's grief runs deeper than words can reach, novice. We speak them to help ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Murder the wrong man and he'll kill you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Are we being stupid here?” Ara frowned at her broken staff. “There’s a monster down there we know nothing about, and Jula has a frying pan.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“She knew armor when she saw it, and who wears such heavy armor if they are not vulnerable without it?”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“But children have resilience. Children scar and those scars remain across the years, but children grow too. Kettle grew around her hurts and learned to laugh again—learned wickedness as they taught her scripture—learned the swiftness of her body and the sharpness of her mind. She grew into a woman and learned to love and to be loved.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Sister Hoe—who had charge of the wine-making—had told Nona that a heavy dose of fertilizer would coax most plants to open their leaves whatever the weather. “They can’t abide to lose the chance,” the old woman had said. “Worried some other plant will thieve it first. They’re not so different from people really. There’s not much most wouldn’t risk to stop a rival having the benefit of something they want.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“They could speak now, as adults, not separated by that gulf between a child’s ignorance and a grown-up’s sorrows.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“For those of you who have had to wait a while for this book I provide brief catch-up notes to Book One, so that your memories may be refreshed and I can avoid the awkwardness of having to have characters tell each other things they already know for your benefit.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“But when we’re left to our own devices it’s not long before someone, often greedy for power and influence, takes it upon themselves to change the Ancestor’s teachings, just a little bit, but in a way that makes that person more important or special or allows them privilege.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“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, Grey Sister

“Nothing is as cruel as a righteous man. She had been righteous in her time.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“In any game of bets and forfeit the bluff was always of more importance than whatever might be written in the cards held tight against your chest.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

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― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

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― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Every law of church or state seeks to separate you from your anger. Every rule is there to tame you—to take from your hands that which you should own. Every stricture aims to place the vengeance that is yours in the grasp of courts, juries, justice and judges. Books of law look to replace what you know to be right with lines of ink. Prisons and executioners stand only to keep your hands from the blood of those who have wronged you. Every part of it exists to put time and distance between deed and consequence. To lift us from our animal nature, to cage and tame the beast.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“Somewhere behind Kettle Zole spoke in a voice almost too quiet to hear. “She is my friend.”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“The holy disdain anger, for what faith is not, at its core, about acceptance of things you cannot change? The wise call wrath unwise for few truths are to be found there. Those who rule us stamp upon rage for they see it clearly, knowing it for the fire that it is, and who invites such hungry flames among that which they possess?”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister

“The holy disdain anger, for what faith is not, at its core, about acceptance of things you cannot change?”
― Mark Lawrence, Grey Sister