“I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.”

“I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.”

“She was right. Karma was a bitch, but so was I.”

“It's okay. Suddenly, the pain is starting to fade.""Yeah, revenge does that.”

“As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.”

“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbi...”

“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no...”

“The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldnt afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held li...”

“The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She ...”