The People's Library Quotes

“though the author is speaking directly to the reader, the words and their intent are still filtered through a lens based on their lived experience.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“the number zero here represents someone’s attempt to trace consciousness back to the source of all existence.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“If you accept that in this complex system, everything is connected, interdependent, then all those parts come together, acting and reacting to construct a whole. But it begins somewhere, and that place is the void.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“science and medicine prevailed, and the world had been freed of unnecessary meetings right along with nonessential commutes.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“By slowly reducing the AI’s role, her brain might have time to adapt and hopefully reestablish natural neural pathways and processing functions.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“I know that privacy is an illusion,” she said finally. “But I need it. I want to know that some part of me, of my life, isn’t open for surveillance.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“wasn’t until her aunt passed away when Echo was a teenager that she’d begun to see the assisted living facility under the light of truth. Their one-hour visit”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“this was no different from any other fissure in human history. We build”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“So that meant where there was no way”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“when I coexisted with the intelligence”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“The other 167 hours of each week were an exercise in dissociated endurance.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“This is not your sword to fall upon.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“He held out a hand”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“All that stood in the way of her library assistant running this place was Echo herself and the archaic MLS degree requirement.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library