Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

by Rachel Caine

“Not all knowledge is books. Those out there, they’re history in stone. Men carved them. Men sweated in this sun to put them there, to make their city more beautiful. Who are you to say what’s worthy for men to see today, or tomorrow?” “You’re an irreligious bastard,” Portero said. “I knew you would be.” “I’m as good a Catholic as you,” Jess said. “I just don’t hold with making the world into copies of what I like.”

he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it.