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“Stroking a cat is a two-way process. He’s not going to purr unless you’re both happy. That would be rude.”
dreams pass into the waking world through the keyhole of compromise.
“When you sell someone a book you give them ownership of something without it being taken away from anyone else. You give them a ticket for a voyage. A door to other worlds. People walk out of here not truly knowing what they’re carrying with them. They used to put locks on books. Did you know that? Individual locks. I don’t approve of that, but I like the symbolism. You still need a key to open a book. I’m not talking about turning the cover here – to open the story, you need a key, and you are the key. Perhaps you won’t fit. Perhaps you will and the story will open for you.”
“But people don’t value what has no price,” Yute said. “People receiving stories for nothing do nothing with them. Where books are so cheap that the price isn’t noticeable they drift in unloved heaps. The freely given is stepped over in the rush to spend on something we’re told we can’t have unless we pay.”
