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“Everything we see is seen through the lens of our expectation. Our prejudice provides a broad brush, imagination sprinkles detail, some of which may actually be there. We ascribe meaning and intent with a careless disregard for our constant failure at such prediction. One is forced to wonder if the blind man’s hands lie to him as eloquently as vision does to the sighted.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“With an endless library,” Livira muttered, “if you search long enough, you can find a book that agrees with just about any opinion you have”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts - and that it's a blade we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― The Library Trilogy
― The Library Trilogy
“People don’t want truth. They say that they do but what they mean is that they want the truth to agree with them.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“Nostalgia is the best and the worst feeling - complex - nothing has the ability to so delight and wound us simultaneously, except perhaps for love.”
― The Library Trilogy
― The Library Trilogy
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