One must make one's own mistakes

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

The past is the father of the present.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.