Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater #1)

by Christopher Ruocchio

“Knowledge is the mother of fools,” he said. “Remember, the greatest part of wisdom in recognizing your own ignorance.”

so books—which are to thoughts as amber to the captured fly—were their greatest treasures.

Strange, isn’t it, how the greatest disasters in history often feel hollow and abstract, like distant thunder? A single death, wrote one ancient king, is a tragedy, but a genocide can only be understood through statistics.