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"Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness."
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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

"It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise."

"We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance."
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"I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones."

"Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night."

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."

"I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around."

"No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author."

"My mom used to say, 'Life isn't fair,'" said Shadow."Of course she did, said Wednesday. "It's one of those things that moms say, right up there with 'If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?'"You stiffed that girl for ten bucks, I slipped her ten bucks, said Shadow, doggedly. "It was the right thing to do.Someone announced that their plane was boarding. Wednesday stood up. "May your choices always be so clear, he said."

"That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know."

"When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Rocket and S Is for Space. Now I was doing the same sort of thing, and I asked Ray if he'd mind if I called this book M Is for Magic. (He didn't.)M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises..."

"But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."
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