If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.