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“But if you can’t be a gentleman, you can at least not be a creep. Painter closed his eyes.”
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― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“If it weren’t for Tolkien, all of us nerds would’ve had a lot less fun during the last ninety years.”
― Ready Player Two
― Ready Player Two
“A proper library has at least one fantastic librarian, preferably more than one, so if the fantastic librarian goes out to lunch or falls into a tar pit, there will be a spare.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“I was unprepared in a truly hilarious fashion, but I have learned this about endeavor— that we are never prepared. We are always overwhelmed at some point. And I have learned that the human spirit is fierce, that it enables us to do things that we set out to do, the things that cannot be prepared for, the things we would never have set out to do if we had known what it would’ve taken at the start.”
― Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast
― Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast
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