“A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.”

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

“By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.”

“His kid brother had been smart enough to make something of himself in the big world; Ollie himself might have been smart enough to stay ahead of the bank loans and the credit cards, but not much more.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. ”

“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”