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

“I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.”

“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.”

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

“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.”

“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”