“Show me these admiring men you speak of, she wanted to say. In fact, show me a single man who's ever considered me anything other than a handful. She was too intelligent, too impulsive, too iron-willed for most.”
― The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
― The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
“When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she.”
― Upright Women Wanted
― Upright Women Wanted
“Everything ends,” she says. “That’s nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.”
― Dear Edward
― Dear Edward
“What happened is baked into your bones, Edward. It lives under your skin. It’s not going away. It’s part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you’ve been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.”
― Dear Edward
― Dear Edward
“You keep the lights on in a library the same way you keep the lights on in the emergency of a hospital.”
― Harry's Trees
― Harry's Trees
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