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One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) QUOTES

One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) QUOTES

1 " In hospital they ask you to rate your discomfort on a scale of ten. I guess it’s the best they can come up with, but it fails to capture the nature of the beast. Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, relegating the world to a periphery. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

2 " Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

3 " Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, relegating the world to a periphery. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

4 " Truth may often be the first casualty of war, but dignity is definitely the first casualty of disease. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

5 " It’s always a shock, when you’ve been hit by some calamity, to see the world go about its business with perfect indifference. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

6 " We might live in a multiverse of infinite wonder, but we are what we are, and can only care about what falls into our own orbit. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

7 " The beauty and the silliness, and how one piece fitted with the next, and how we all dance around each other in a kind of terror, too petrified of stepping on each other’s toes to understand that we are at least for a brief time getting to dance and should be enjoying the hell out of it. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

8 " Fear is a strange thing. Along with its close friend, pain, fear is a vital part of the kit that evolution has furnished us with for keeping alive. Part of its effectiveness comes down to how hard it can be to overcome. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

9 " The magical power of D&D to draw together people who knew things. Who cared about questions that didn’t seem to matter. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

10 " He died when I was twelve. He also had cancer, but an oncoming train cured him. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

11 " quantum mechanics was clever stuff. Most of it danced to its own tune, but there was still enough fundamental mathematics underlying all the pretty manipulations to keep me interested. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

12 " They say it’s good to share, but in the end, whatever anyone says, we face the real shit alone. We die alone and on the way we shed our attachments. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

13 " All of us have a shell, a skin between us and the world that we have to break each time we speak to it. Sometimes I wished mine were thinner. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

14 " That’s the common thread running through all the diverse hordes of nerds and geeks who turned up to the conventions and gatherings, who queued outside Games Workshop for the latest rulebook. We were all of us consumed by our own imagination, victims of it, haunted by impossibles, set alight by our own visions, and by other people’s. We weren’t the flamboyant artsy creatives, the darlings who would walk the boards beneath the hot eye of the spotlight, or dance, or paint, or even write novels. We were a tribe who had always felt as if we were locked into a box that we couldn’t see. And when D&D came along, suddenly we saw both the box and the key. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

15 " every generation thinks it’s born into the golden age of music, "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

16 " I suspect most teenage boys could win the hundred metres in an attempt to outdistance parental embarrassment. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

17 " The thing about cancer, and I guess any disaster, is that it doesn’t just go away. You don’t wake up. And, in the end, you just have to get on with things exactly like everyone else does. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

18 " So we’re literally changing the course of history?’ Demus shrugged. ‘Over a girl?’ ‘There’s a better reason? "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

19 " Thought we’d come check on you. Nicky Hayes doesn’t miss school two days in a row unless he’s dying. "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)

20 " Parsons "

― Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1)