Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.