The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)

by Mark Lawrence

Truth will set you free . . . from certainty, comfort, and the beliefs upon which we rely for sanity . . . A History of Histories, by William Ancrath

she wasn’t sure why she’d stared them down—just that she always did it, she always fought back, and that all this newness, all this grandeur, seemed to scream that the place and everyone in it was better than her.

It unsettled her how the same words could mean such different things to different people. How it might be possible for two sets of eyes to witness the same events and later give accounts at odds with each other.

People don’t want truth. They say that they do but what they mean is that they want the truth to agree with them.

“You could give them enough money to change their life, they think—but most lives can swallow any amount and stay the same.”

“It’s always the books you don’t have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.”