stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Superstition has its practical uses.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?