Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.