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“How much easier it would be if everyone knew their role: the hero, the sidekick, the villain. Our books would be neater and our souls less frayed. But whether you have blood or ink, no one's story is that simple.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“Reading a novel, he supposes, is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at this particular game. (Though he sometimes wishes choose-your-own-adventure novels would come back into fashion.)”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It's good for a person to be terrorized by a goat. Hard to get high and mighty when there's something chasing you for vegetables”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks