“I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”

“Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago”

“You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?""He's got big feet!""What?"An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.”