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I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected


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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.



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.

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.



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

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



Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.



... 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.

... 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.

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.



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

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



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

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



You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.



A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.





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