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Bookstores attract the right kind of folk...and I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels...I like how a new books smells too.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

And then, despite the fact that AJ does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart. --p74

AJ nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a fun appears in act one, that fun had better go off by act three.

Who are these people who think a book comes with guarantee that they will like it?

Their resettlement is proceeding according to plan these are...extraordinary times...and whatever we must do to defend our country must be done. There will be some things that people see...these things happen. And life goes on.

Soon we were hearing stories of entire communities being taken away...one of us stopped talking. Another of us went out early... and hung herself. Fubuki was so anxious that when the evacuation orders were finally posted she let out a sigh of relief, for at last, the waiting had come to an end.

Just three lords long.

She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon....the second time was even less terrible.

They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?

They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?

That was a new and awesome development--the hair touching.

When you know the heart of something, you will not become so easily stressed or angry at the things that surround it."

'Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing,' says Scour in To Kill a Mockingbird...'I guess I am what some people would call a bookworm..'

"I rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than with trash lawn ornaments" p. 157

"It's the Joshua Tree's struggle that gives it its beauty." p. 38

"Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You'd think all women do is clean and bleed."