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> [“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he looked there were books. They rose into the air in majestic columns, stacks and stacks of them forming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/this-place-might-have-been-paradise-a-treasure-trove-far-greater-than/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

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## More by Lavie Tidhar

> [“Love cannot be understood as a quantum construct. Or can it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/love-cannot-be-understood-as-a-quantum-construct-or-can-it/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/this-is-the-time-of-myths-they-are-woven-into-the-present-like-silk/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“What if the Cairo Conference of 1921 went ahead as planned, with Churchill and T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell dividing up the Middle East…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/what-if-the-cairo-conference-of-1921-went-ahead-as-planned-with/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“What did you see? She says. Reaches around to fondle him again. This time he lets her. She feels him harden. I saw them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/what-did-you-see-she-says-reaches-around-to-fondle-him-again-this/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“I have a lot of time to think. To look at the strands of the past weave themselves into the knots of the present,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/i-have-a-lot-of-time-to-think-to-look-at-the-strands-of-the-past/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/these-were-the-facts-facts-were-important-they-separated-fiction-from/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/meeting-one-s-heroes-is-always-such-a-disappointment/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/books-he-thought-were-a-sort-of-migratory-bird-here-they-rested-a/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/life-isn-t-a-pulp-novel-joe-and-death-isn-t-either/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/destiny-is-like-a-book-it-needs-manufacturing-the-pulp-process-the/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“It's a small publication dedicated to a scholarly discourse of the Osamaverse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/it-s-a-small-publication-dedicated-to-a-scholarly-discourse-of-the/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Joe looked out of the window again. He had the feeling that outside the window there should have been hover-cars, men in trilby hats…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/joe-looked-out-of-the-window-again-he-had-the-feeling-that-outside/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“...this is something out of a bad novel, before the Revolution happened, before a man called Hitler rose to power and rewrote the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/this-is-something-out-of-a-bad-novel-before-the-revolution-happened/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/for-one-crazy-moment-he-had-the-notion-of-a-vanished-tribe-of/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

> [“Everybody has a bogeyman.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/everybody-has-a-bogeyman/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

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