Lexivore

“Better catch up with reality. You’re missing the boat. Time’s going to come when computers will do everything.” “I have trouble believing that. It just seems so unlikely .” “You’re not a believer like the rest of us. The day will come when ten-year-olds will master these machines and you’ll be at their mercy.”
― Sue Grafton, Four Sue Grafton Novels

“Libraries had a scent that nothing else did. Was it simply the intermingling smells of old pages, dust, adhesive, and ink? Or did the stories have a scent of their own? If you took papers and book glue and ink and mixed them together, would it smell the same?”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“She needed to tell him that she’d looked at his latest piece of writing too, that she didn’t like it, all the to-ing and fro-ing, all that jumping around in the timeline. Like the last one, the awful crime thing. Just start at the beginning, for God’s sake.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“He was no genius, but he showed up and did the work, and most times that was all it took to succeed at anything in life.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead