Holy Sister Quotes

“There might not be a meaning to the world, or in it, but that does not mean that what we do has no meaning.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also always the same.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“To sow knowing that you will not reap is an old kind of love, and love has always been the best key for unlocking the future.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“A million words won’t push the ice back, not even the breadth of a finger. But one word will break a heart, two will mend it, and three will lay the highest low.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“All leaves must fall in time, she had said. The lives we lived fall away from us, but something remains, something that is part of the tree.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“But that was never the heart of Sweet Mercy. The shipheart wasn’t the foundation of the convent. It was always the faith. Always the notion that all men and women are our brothers and our sisters. And that faith doesn’t end with borders. It doesn’t care about heresies used to divide us, or whether you speak your prayers to a white star, or to the fields and forests and stones.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Giljohn stood at the cart, held by bonds of the sort that no child can see, the kind made of debt and of a bitter understanding of the world’s truths, the kind that tear at a life as you struggle against them and leave wounds that won’t heal.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also the same.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“...but one word will break a heart, two will mend it, and three will lay the highest low.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“We can institute a peace. And with peace comes progress. We lost our knowledge through the course of a thousand wars. We fail to rediscover it only because our minds are always turned to survival...”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“She felt her devils moving beneath her habit, their voices crying out for blood, and she found herself in agreement. The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Kill her and be done.’ ‘I haven’t reached the Path in twenty years because in all that time I have never left it.’ Sister Pan glanced again at Nona. ‘Run, child. Please.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

“Wheel would have told her that sorrow was a luxury she could keep for later, when the work was done.”
― Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister