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‘It’s a place of peace,’ Thermos Flask had said to her after her interview. ‘We pride ourselves on that. Lots of libraries have been closed down recently, I’m sure you’ve heard all about it, and we’re doing everything we can to highlight to the powers-that-be how vital this space is for our community.’
It’s like, I don’t know, no one’s trying to be someone they’re not in a library.’
he knew that a warning, no matter how stark, was never a comfort; it was only the slow drip of fear through all the good and all the bad times. A ticking time bomb.
Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.
He wished more than anything that – rather than suffering creaking joints and ailing eyesight – he’d started losing his hearing first. In his family, where each of his daughters liked to talk a thousand decibels louder than the average human, that would have been particularly useful.
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It was strange how, once childhood left, your parents became simply human, with fears and worries just like your own.
