“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…”
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― Swamplandia!
“We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”
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― The Arctic Incident
“If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so
grouchy in the morning.”
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grouchy in the morning.”
― Strawberry Shortcake Murder
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
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