Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)

by Mark Lawrence

You cannot read the same book twice. When you return to the first page it will be a different “you”, changed by the very experiences you are seeking to recapture.

Sad truth

“People are like books that are loaned out with blank pages and it’s the job of the world to fill in the story. Maybe that story will get read a page here, paragraph there, a line exchanged on a doorstep with a stranger. With luck most of it will be shared with someone precious.

But there’s a power in brevity. A short tale can weigh more heavily on the heart than the longest epic. And sometimes a single phrase will echo through eternity.”

“We never know when or how it will end. And there’s a kindness in that too.”