Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)

by Mark Lawrence

And despite her confidence, it seemed to him that the difference between charging at one thing, and running away from another, was often so small as to make it impossible to tell one from the other.

“It’s not about teaching,” Livira said. “Who would want that? It’s about sharing. The author lays out the things they’ve seen, the things they’ve felt. They try, using words, to convey ideas too delicate for words, building characters and places and times from which the ephemeral might bleed into the space between the lines.”