The Library of Amorlin Quotes

“I’m fine,” she said again. It was the simplest and yet most necessary lie she ever told.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Dreams are unrealized stories.” Allaster’s voice was soft as the swish of the lake’s waters. Twice as alluring. “How can someone so passionate about stories not have a dream?”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Maybe there was always a choice”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Perhaps, in the end, all a person really had was the choices they made.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“She had learned a thousand and one things and been a hundred different people. But the truth was, she had spent her life running from, not to. From her past. From her mistakes. From herself.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“And here I was certain you would be moping for at least another hour,” Nyelle remarked with a curve of her lips. “I do not mope,” Allaster grumbled, dropping heavily into his desk chair. Nyelle’s too-keen gaze took in his sagging posture, set jaw, and general air of dishevelment and said, “You’re right. It’s much more of a brood.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Only once her breathing finally calmed did she realize where she was sitting. The chair hadn’t been there previously, nor had the room been large enough to accommodate it. Seeking a task to channel her nervous energy, she measured the distance between the foot of the bed and the opposite wall and found it wider than it had been when she left that morning. The room had changed. Just like the door in Allaster’s office had appeared to let her out and the hallway in the catacombs had moved. Allaster wasn’t the only one with spatial abilities—the Library had its own magic, and it was aware of her. The question was, did it see her as friend, or foe?”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“There was a comfort in knowing your place in the world, in knowing what you believed, and the Library was stripping that away from her. It was forcing her to ask the sorts of questions that had seen her condemned, and each day it grew harder to swallow them back.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“she admitted to herself that everything she had done, the choices she had made, she hadn’t just made them to survive. She had made them because they were easier.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“So much of her life had been a battle. She had worn herself down to nothing to survive, rewritten herself over and over again until the words bled together, and she could no longer recognize the truth.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Books on rows upon rows of shelves, books in built-in alcoves, books stacked on counters and on desks and on forgotten side tables beside teetering towers of teacups. Then she looked up. Level after level ringed the inside of the room like the ribs of a corset, culminating in a gold-framed stained-glass dome. It shouldn’t have surprised her. From what she had read, the Library had begun as a place of study for magic that grew into something more. But she had never seen so many books in one place. Pages and pages of words; more than anyone could read in a lifetime, and yet some part of Kasira wanted to try.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“People wanted to be told that things were not their fault. That their problems had simple solutions.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“she had thought she could make this her life. That she could set fire to her old one and let the smoke wash her clean. At least she was alive. At least she breathed fresh air. But Vera’s proposal was a mirror, reflecting the truth back at her: This was not living. It was barely surviving. But a want was a dangerous thing. It gave people power over you, made you vulnerable.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“How a man like him had risen through the ranks she didn’t know, but power rarely went to those who deserved it.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Too much truth was dangerous.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“It felt like wading back into a dream in the early hours of the morning, when your mind was still lost in the magic, but you were awake enough to feel the blanket curled around you.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“For those who dreamed of dragons.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin