The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.