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"Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right.
There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time..."

"You couldn’t trust wizards. Every guard knew you couldn’t trust wizards. They were even worse than civilians."

"In the silence of the night the books talked to one another."

"It wasn't the loneliness of command that was bothering him. It was the being-fried-alive of command that was giving him problems."

"It was amazing /.../ You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.”

"- The Door of Knowledge Through Which the Untutored May Not Pass sticks something wicked in the damp.”

"People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library."