The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing) (The Prince of Nothing Series 2)

by R. Scott Bakker

To open a book was not only to seize a moment of helplessness, not only to relinquish a jealous handful of heartbeats to the unpredictable mark of another man’s quill, it was to allow oneself to be written.

For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another’s soul?