The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

by Mark Lawrence

Malar turned and frowned at her. “People don’t choose sides up here.” He tapped his head. “That’s where they think up the reasons for the choice after they’ve made it. The reasons they’re going to tell everyone. But the truth is that they made the choice here.” He slapped his chest. “We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true, whether they are or not.

What was life if not a song sung to the music of the past for the future to hear?