The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)
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Their feathery pages were flimsy, thin, and near the ends of their current lives. Their next lives were as dust.
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The man had died like this because of his mouth, not because of the manuscripts for which Timbouctou had become famous.
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“Heat rises, but it also scorches the earth when it is hungry,” she said. “That fire is hungry.”
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Education and the future were important, but family was the true elixir of life.
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They seem to want to destroy all things that are about knowledge, history, and free thought.”
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“It’s black because it is so full of words, there is no space untouched.”
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“You’re a terrible writer,” Faro said over her shoulder. “But you’re a good reader.”