Mary Lawson quotes

Mary Lawson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.”
-- Mary Lawson

#Moving Quotes #School Quotes #Simple Quotes
“Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?”
-- Mary Lawson

#Journey Quotes #Men Quotes #Laughing Quotes
“We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.”
-- Mary Lawson

#Running Quotes #Lines Quotes #Way Quotes
“Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all”
-- Mary Lawson

#Years Quotes #Forever Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”
-- Mary Lawson

#Fear Quotes #Fall Quotes #Loss Quotes

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