Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

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.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.