Spencer

“Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“He had a love affair with photosynthesis. He could talk about moss for an hour. He said that plants carried wisdom humans would never be around long enough to understand.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Time. Day after day, year after year, time wipes the old books from the world. The manuscript you brought us before? That was written by Aelian, a learned man who lived at the time of the Caesers. For it to reach us in this room, in this hour, the lines within it had to survive a dozen centuries. A scribe had to copy it, and a second scribe, decades later, had to recopy that copy, transform it from a scroll to a codex, and long after the second scribe's bones were in the earth, a third came along and recopied it again, and all this time the book was being hunted. One bad-tempered abbot, one clumsy friar, one invading barbarian, an overturned candle, a hungry worm-and all those centuries are undone.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Each of these books, child, is a door, a gateway to another place and time. You have your whole life in front of you, and for all of it, you’ll have this. It will be enough, don’t you think?”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land