“He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.”
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”
“Cross the threshold, beauty girl," he says."You cross mine," she says back.”
“And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.”
“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
“He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.”