“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”

“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”

“I'm a librarian, not an oracle.”

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

“You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!”