Dispel Illusion Quotes

“The universe doesn’t care about time. We care about time. Because we remember.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“The eyes can be deceived. People can be deceived. A lie can be used for good ends as well as bad. An illusion that is never dispelled is a reality all of its own.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“There are various processes in life where you’re carried on past the point of no return despite yourself, and you find that the only option is to plunge on. An argument developing into a fistfight gathers its own momentum; ill-advised sex, too: with both of them you reach a point where pulling out ceases to be an option.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“The stories of our lives don’t behave themselves; they don’t have clear beginnings, and even death isn’t a clear end. We just do what we can, we take what kindness and joy we find along the way, we ride the rapids as best we’re able.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“The optimist sets themself up for disappointment. I’m just aiming for a little realism.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“I had left that boy behind in my wake, just as we all abandon the children we were. Slow or fast, the years pull us apart from them, sometimes in one savage yank, sometimes by degrees, like the hour hand of the clock, too stealthy for us to perceive its motion and yet when you look again it is no longer where you left it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“The two saving graces of explosions are that from the outside they’re pretty and from the inside they’re quick.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“Life in general, and human intelligence in particular, had once seemed an inconsequential complication in the world of physics; but the more we learned, the more intelligence had revealed itself to be a fundamental mystery at the heart of everything, deeper than the dances of stars and galaxies.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“I hated him in the way that only someone who can’t sleep hates someone who won’t wake up can.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“There’s a special connection between consciousness and time. Einstein said, ‘Time is an illusion’, and the great Douglas Adams had even greater doubts about lunchtime.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“Years crawl by but once they get behind you in a big old stack, it’s amazing how they seem to have done it in the blink of an eye.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“None of it makes much sense, but what it’s hard to argue with is that there are a hundred and seven nudists heading back through time in a cave under a field not far outside Bristol, and I’m one of them.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“After all, forward time travel is just an advanced form of waiting.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion

“The mathematics of time don’t care about ‘now’, they just ask what value you want to set ‘t’ to.”
― Mark Lawrence, Dispel Illusion