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Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2) QUOTES

Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2) QUOTES

1 " With the right books, we can change everything. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

2 " One thing you learn early growing up a girl--people always talk, whatever you do,' Glain said. 'What bliss it must be to be male. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

3 " we're just paper on a shelf, in the end "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

4 " Hard habit to break, friendship. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

5 " Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.’” “Stupid "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

6 " Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

7 " But hope was a malicious, jagged thing, all spikes and razors that churned and cut deep in his guts. Hope was a great deal like fear. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

8 " Books had become a symbol of trust and libraries places of peace and stability. In all the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

9 " Jess." Khalila drew his gaze back to her. "What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

10 " Dario, What you do or do not want applies to you, not me. I didn't ask your permission, and I don't seek your approval!'

Khalia's voice had taken on a hard edge, and Dario was the first to look away.

'Congratulations,' Glain said 'You're both wildly independent, and now the Archivist has to be wondering why both of you would want to get close to him at the same time. Clearly, neither of you are cut out to be spies. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

11 " Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are."
"Worse," Santi sighed. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

12 " One thing you learn early growing up a girl—people always talk, whatever you do,” Glain said. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

13 " Alchemy is a science, but a science that acknowledges certain principles of magic. This. . . this is a mathematical expression of quintessence, Archimedes' fifth element, which binds all things together. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

14 " Goliath fell to a slingshot and a stone. and the Library is a lumbering giant, dying of its own arrogance; it has to change or fall. We have the tools. The will. The knowledge. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

15 " He stood there for a long moment, the note in his hand, and just looked at her. At the undeniable heartbreak in her, and the dignity and the vulnerability.
Then he pressed the note into Neksa's hand and said, "Lesson learned. You shouldn't trust either of us."
He was gone before she spoke again. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

16 " He leaned down and stared into the lion's savage eyes and said, "Come on, then, if you're coming. Take a bite. But if you do, everybody will know it wasn't an accident. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

17 " Are you going to the dining hall?"
Glain smiled very briefly. It was a rare enough event, and it made her almost human. Almost pretty. "Are you asking to escort me, like some girl you're romancing? Jess. Don't waste your time. I'm extremely unavailable."...
"Remind me never to be polite to you again," he said, and she laughed this time, came around, and draped a comrade's arm around his shoulders.
"Of course I will. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

18 " Hope was a great deal like fear. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

19 " Nothing like Rome, boy. Gets us all the first time.”
“And every time after. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

20 " I’ve never been through what you have, but I’ve been in the dark a few times. Sometimes the light’s just too bright. "

― Rachel Caine , Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)