“I'm a librarian, not an oracle.”

“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 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.”

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

“I'm whining. It's unattractive, but I find I'm powerless to stop”

“And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.”