The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)

by Tad Williams

books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well.”

“Some types of men, Simon, whose minds are very full of thoughts, they are forgetting to speak and act like normal men.”

“Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.”