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> [“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romances-earlier-frightened-you/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

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## More by Sofia Samatar

> [“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romances-earlier-frightened-you/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/once-you-have-built-something-something-that-takes-all-your-passion/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“Are you just going to stand there and leak like a broken hourglass?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/are-you-just-going-to-stand-there-and-leak-like-a-broken-hourglass/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“It was “a shape to make men weep,” wrote Firdred of Bain when he first saw it: “exactly the shape of a desecrated sea.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/it-was-a-shape-to-make-men-weep-wrote-firdred-of-bain-when-he-first/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“There is no end to writing, I think, no end to the project of rescue." --Sofia Samatar, from "Fallow," in her collection, Tender”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/there-is-no-end-to-writing-i-think-no-end-to-the-project-of-rescue/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/all-through-my-journey-his-stories-had-fallen-like-snow-he-was-as/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/long-is-the-journey-homeward-weary-and-worn-are-we-oh-if-i-fall/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/but-preserve-your-mistrust-of-the-page-for-a-book-is-a-fortress-a/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/people-talked-about-loneliness-as-if-it-were-something-alive-and-it/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words'...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-word-for-book-in-all-the-known-languages-of-the-earth-is-vallon/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/there-is-enough-cruelty-in-the-world-she-told-me-softly-to-justify/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-night-sky-was-distended-in-my-dreams-sinking-to-earth-with-the/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-truth-has-its-own-virtue-which-is-separate-from-its-content/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“As I was a stranger in Olondria, I knew nothing of the splendour of its coasts, nor of Bain, the Harbour City, whose lights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/as-i-was-a-stranger-in-olondria-i-knew-nothing-of-the-splendour-of/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

> [“His exaltation left no room for the human.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/his-exaltation-left-no-room-for-the-human/)

[Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/)

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