“It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.”
“Can you just relax and let things happen?”
“The truth is nothing new ever happens.”
“The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.”
“Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.”
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”