...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.