Lazy_Cat quoted The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (The Library Trilogy, #1)
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires …
Pride is stupid, pride is blind, but pride is also the backbone that runs through us: without pride there's no spring-back, no resilience.
— The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (The Library Trilogy, #1) (Page 182)