“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

“Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.”

“Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.”

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”