Quotes
To see things properly, it is not enough simply to look. People who look at life - purely as witnesses, spectators - are not rare; and one of the strangest lessons to be learnt from our literature is that professional spectators, judges by vocation and witnesses by predestination, contemplate life with less understanding and grasp of its rich content than anyone else. There really is no substitution for participation!
It was not a life he'd ever dreamed of, but it was a life.
All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic ... and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be the messiest of all.
The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
She got dirt in her mouth but she didn't care, the taste was fine, the taste was mud and water and worms and life.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
“All life is theatre,” he said. “We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....” He laughed gently. “Some players would say that is the best kind of theatre there can be.”
p. 139
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
p. 351
