He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

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.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?