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“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?”
― Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams

“Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of which you might not trust your friends with.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.”
― Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

“This God sounds rather suspicious to me," said Mopple.”
― Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

“One's first response is that these Beirutis must be savagely insane to murder each other for such trivial divergences. Don't judge us too harshly. At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Noah, however, was a son of a bitch of a captain who ran a very tight ship. Only pairs of the best and the brightest were allowed to climb the plank—perpetuate the species, repopulate the planet, and all that Nazi nonsense. Would Noah have allowed a lesbian zebra aboard, an unmarried hedgehog, a limping lemur?”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman