Sheila

“They burn them first, the stories. Humans always come for the stories first. It’s their warm-up, before they start burning other humans. It’s their first form of control, to burn the libraries, to burn the books, to burn the archives of a culture. Humans are the stories they tell. If you want to destroy your enemy, destroy their stories. Even if the people survive, it will be as if they never existed at all.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“It smelled like the color thirteen; it felt warm as violet; it whispered cardamom binaries.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“The trouble with reading is it goes to your head. Read too many books and you get savvy. You begin to think you know which kind of story you’re in. Then some stupid git with a cosmic quill fucks you over.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“The entire wing. All books on lockdown. Nothing leaves. Jot a note to inform the muses. Earth is just going to have to deal with writer’s block until we get back.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten