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

by Mark Lawrence

“Folks these days don’t have time for gods. Progress is the new deity.”

Some sentiments transcend language. When spoken, expressions of love or hate rarely require translation for the meaning to penetrate.

And where are your shoes?” “In the future.”

Evar felt like someone who’d been waiting his whole life for something to happen, constantly worried by the fear that it already had, and that he had missed it.

“We don’t even know what kansas is anymore.” Mayland said that in the histories some held it to be a real place, some a mythical city, and others still an enlightened state of being.

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.

nothing undermines a faith so much as exposing the inner workings,

if a civilisation is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.”