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

by Mark Lawrence

“There’s nothing brave in committing to a fight—you just need to understand that there’s a scarier outcome waiting for you if you don’t.

“Knowledge. That’s what they pay with. Whole city’s here for one reason. This is where King Oanold’s great-grandfather built the library.”

Without guilt we would all be monsters. And memory is the ink with which we list our crimes.

Recognition. There are moments in life when you know with a great and unshakeable certainty that everything will change.

“I declared war.”

She was Livira. Give her an inch and she would take all the miles you owned.

the city thrived by trading knowledge, and she now knew that knowledge could be trapped in ink. It could be snared in words and locked to the pages of a book such as those she’d been shown

Kindness carries a weight; it’s a burden all its own when you have nothing.

“In you I see a spark like no other, and when you’re grown, I hope it will become such a light that it will show us a way out.” He steepled his pale fingers, then interlaced them. “And make no mistake, child, we are trapped.”