Kimberley

“Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“When all you have is a shard of papyrus with a few words on it,” Rex says, “or a single line quoted in somebody else’s text, the potential of what’s lost haunts you. It’s like the boys who died in Korea. We grieve them the most because we never saw the men they would become.” Zeno thinks of his father: how much easier it was to be a hero when you no longer walked the earth.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all”
― Frederick Buechner

“And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land