“It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”

“I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner.”

“Have you been smoking something? Seriously, I think you're a werewolf. This new snarky attitude is a dead giveaway.""And vampires aren't snarky?" Kylie rolled her eyes."No, we're pissy. Snarky and pissy are two totally different things.”

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”

“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.”

“I located America thirty-one years ago in a Model T Ford and planted my flag. I've tried a couple of times since to find it again, riding in faster cars and on better roads, but America is the sort of place that is discovered only once by any one man.”