But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.

Sofia Samatar
But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book...
But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book...
But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book...
But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book...
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If you want to know that something is true then read it, even if it looks like a book of fiction. You can never be sure of what is happening and even if you aren’t sure, waiting and watching will let you know what’s really going on.

Source: A Stranger In Olondria

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