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369 pages, Hardcover
First published January 22, 2019
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“Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church.”
"You don't get things past librarians."
"I heard about her from one of the top librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times. They said she was trouble, but good trouble."
"Back in Pittsburgh, if someone had infiltrated the library with fifty squirrels, that person would have been hailed as a hero. But Ellingham was full of library lovers, and there was the feeling in the air that this was, perhaps, a bridge too far. You could be naked, you could scream and hang out on the roof, but you do not mess with the place with the books."
“Oh, I like it,” Nate said. “Snow makes it socially acceptable to stay in.”
"Stevie hated football, and she specifically hated the car commercials that were in football, and she specifically hated the car commercials that were in football, with the meaningless slogans and aggressive masculine messages about how important it was for Americans to drive up rocks and treat every trip to the store or a soccer game like a single-person invasion."
“When things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.”
“Reading is on of the greatest pleasure of life - maybe the greatest. All the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key."
“The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way.”
Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase, but never on a stair.
"There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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