Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.

Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Tybalt’s what we call ‘Cait Sidhe’— the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes.” “Meow,” said Tybalt, deadpan.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.