The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)

by Libba Bray

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

“I’m a librarian, not an oracle,”

“There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…”

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I’d give the librarian a secret code word and he’d give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,”

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”