QUOTE FROM ANNE PERRY'S NOVELS

'"There is dissatisfaction," Ra-Nufis went on.  "It is small now, but it will grow.  Economic times are good, but greed will erode that.  The pattern of it is there already - the belief in instant reward.  There are more and more officials to deny responsibility for everything but who seem to have the power to obstruct."

'"The knowledge and the love of beauty is dying," he said quietly.  "We are forgetting our past and who we are.  We no longer know what we believe.  No people ever needed the clean sanity of the Book more than ours.  We need its hope, its truth.  How can we strive for heaven when we have forgotten what it is?"'

Excerpt edited from the novel Tathea.

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