Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)

by Mark Lawrence

There are few worse crimes in our lore than a broken spine, a dogeared page. But the men and women, the souls, the … things … that wrote those books cared about the words. The ideas. Not the object. They would rather the books themselves fell apart after ten years in the hands of the thousandth reader than persist for eons on a shelf, waiting for the fire’s inevitable fingers to turn their pages.”

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.”

“You always get something out of reading a book. It’s a reward in and of itself.”

“Very few people are the author of their own story. Perhaps we’re all characters someone else is writing. Maybe in this world there are characters in books who exist in their own world and consider themselves as real as the people who wrote them.