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Margaret Rogerson

Sorcery of Thorns

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    “What is the point of life if you don’t believe in anything?”
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    It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.
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    that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got . . . covered up.
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    You’ve reminded me to live. That’s worth having something to lose.
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    I couldn’t send you away to an orphanage. You belonged in the library, as much as any book.”
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    Was that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got . . . covered up.
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    I seem to recall,” Nathaniel murmured as she twined a hand into his hair, “that this”—another kiss—“is a public street.”

    “The street wouldn’t exist without us,” she replied. “The public wouldn’t, either.”
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    What will Nathaniel do?” she choked.

    Silas paused even longer. Finally he said, in a voice almost like his own, “I fear he must learn to put his clothes on the right side out. He will have twenty more years now to master the art. Let us hope that time is sufficient.” He took a step forward. “Take care of him, Elisabeth.”
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    The library no more belonged to Ashcroft and his plot than Elisabeth belonged to the unknown parents who had brought her into this world. It possessed a life of its own, had become something greater than Cornelius had ever intended. For these were not ordinary books the libraries kept. They were knowledge, given life. Wisdom, given voice. They sang when starlight streamed through the library’s windows. They felt pain and suffered heartbreak. Sometimes they were sinister, grotesque—but so was the world outside. And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.
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    “What is it?” she asked.

    “I knew you talked to books. I didn’t realize they listened.”

    “They do more than just listen.”
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