“I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah”

“PAPER TOWERSThe library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floorsthe first held the majority of the books and a balcony wrapped in a wrought-iron railing held an...”

“The world has a lot to offer. Theres a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.”

“The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”

“Merit is better than miracles.”