Limited Wish Quotes

“Strangely it was social embarrassment that kept me from crying my eyes out, shouting at the injustice of it, kicking tables over: the idea that the strangers to either side might have heard my diagnosis and even now be listening and silently judging me. How terribly British.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“The shadows on the flat screen of a shadow play are projections from more complex objects. Our three-dimensional hands can cast a variety of two-dimensional shadows to delight the audience. In the same way there are fabulous beasts that swim in the seas of mathematics. Multidimensional behemoths of incredible beauty that even the best of minds struggle to glimpse. The equations we battle with, the proofs that we use to nibble at the edges of such wonders: these are the shadows cast by those we hunt.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“There is an unwritten rule of tube travel, understood instinctively by every Londoner from young schoolboy to doddering ancient. You pretend it’s not happening. You pretend that half a dozen strangers are not squeezing against you to a degree that is usually reserved for orgies.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“It’s easy to come up with conspiracy theories if you only look at the evidence that supports your idea.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“there are fabulous beasts that swim in the seas of mathematics. Multidimensional behemoths of incredible beauty that even the best of minds struggle to glimpse.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“We all have something that’s just too much for us. Everyone does. We may never meet it, but it’s out there, waiting. We all have something that will make us take that same train my father took.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“There is an unwritten rule of tube travel, understood instinctively by every Londoner from young schoolboy to doddering ancient. You pretend it’s not happening”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“Mathematics is its own language. The language of everything. It doesn’t need someone to explain it. It explains itself and leaves almost no room for ambiguity.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“I glanced around. I’d spent more time than I wanted to on hospital wards, and the main thing about them is that they are boring as hell. A good book helps,”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“we humans care about what is, about what’s in front of us. Untouchable realities are too academic. If a man is starving to death on our street we empty the larder to feed him. Move him to a country a thousand miles away and our compassion shrinks a hundredfold. Move a child to another universe and we cease to care.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“There is an unwritten rule of tube travel, understood instinctively by every Londoner from young schoolboy to doddering ancient. You pretend it’s not happening. You pretend that half a dozen strangers are not squeezing against you to a degree that is usually reserved for orgies. You pretend that your nose is not inches from the unwashed armpit of a beefy man, that a young woman’s hair is not tickling your face, that you did not step on that person’s foot.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“Sometimes when common sense fails to stop you repeating an action that pain has taught you is a very bad idea, it’s your muscles that step in to prevent the foolishness. They’re good at learning simple lessons. Fire hot. Knife sharp.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“Hope,’ said Demus, ‘is an essential tool in any torturer’s kit bag. Hope is the thing that we will torture ourselves with after he’s knocked off and gone home for the night.”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish

“It wasn’t a baby in Argentina,”
― Mark Lawrence, Limited Wish