Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.