No More Time to Dance Quotes

“Life is easier when one takes a moment to free the mind of thought. My thoughts wanted to destroy me, fulfil a prophesy of my destruction only they could bring true. My mind wanted to think the worst, protecting me for the worst times, yet I knew if I thought that way I surely would fail. I could not become my own worst enemy.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“All you can control is yourself. Once you know that, you are free. Others may think and do what they wish; you will be master of your mind and soul, happy within yourself, controlling your actions and your thoughts. That is all you can control in this world, and it is enough. When you feel sad, think of all you have and how fortunate you are, think how you may make yourself cheerful that day, and do that. When people see you are happy within yourself, they cease to try to bring you down, and they cannot do so in any case because you control your emotions, not them. Rely on no other but yourself, and you will be happier.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“Had I had more time to live, perhaps I would have found the truth I find in death, in life; no light without darkness, no darkness without light. No me without either and no them without me. I am light and dark in equal measures. I am not without sin, or virtue. I am not stupid or wise. I am not goddess or whore, not icon or demon. I am nothing they tried to make me, but everything of myself.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“It is harder for men to believe that men can be so callous, so cruel to a woman they know. That men could treat someone ill who is in their lives each day. Men know such crimes happen in war. Most do not understand they also happen every day, in houses next to theirs, to women they pass in the street. Honest men with decency in their hearts cannot understand. They think because they would never do such a thing, other men could not do it. If they knew the secrets women keep, their hearts would break. If they knew the masks some men wear, they would recoil in horror.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“it is hard to hide anything from children. Even if they do not understand what is wrong they are much better than adults at sensing something is awry. They have to be, to survive. They are, after all, smaller than adults, and have fewer ways to defend themselves. They need to see monsters before monsters see them. That is why we tell fairy stories to children and why they like them so. They are more than aware that all the beasts in such books exist, for they sense them everyday.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“To its cousin, Cruelty, Kindness seems weak, slight, thin. Yet it is not. Goodness is not frail, but mighty. Precious for being rarer than evil.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance

“then his testicles, then into his belly, so intestines could emerge, long, purple and bloody pulled in a line from him. His belly gaping, his manhood quivering in a bowl, his head was cut off, ending his agony.”
― G. Lawrence, No More Time to Dance