Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.