I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.