August Neeley

“If you make happy those who are near, those who are far will come.”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

“The patron god of the library is the one who needs it, who claims the necessity of a place of stories and souls and is willing to build it. Sometimes that's the librarians and curators, sometimes that's the storytellers, but sometimes? Sometimes it's just you. You, the reader, who found your wild and winding way to the pages. You have a library inside you, do you not? Stories, told and untold. That is the power of gods.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“He said something about... ah, you know who," Leto said. "
"Lucifer's our ruler, not a dark wizard, Leto. You can say his name," Claire muttered.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“The Fall of the House of Usher' is a fair primer on what not to do with children.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry