Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?