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“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

“Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.”
― Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward

“What was the apostrophe doing there? Did the doctor own the Meescham? And what was it with exclamation marks? Did people not know what they were for? Surprise, anger, joy—that's what exclamation marks were for. They had nothing to do with who resided where.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.”
― Ellen Hopkins