I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.