The best Quotes from The Pillars of the Earth

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

Sometimes I believe in as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast.

Are you telling me that you stop believing in the moon when the sun comes up?

Sometimes you have to believe before you can see.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Beginnings can be painful. But that doesn't mean they're bad.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.