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“Belle is every book girl’s favorite fairy-tale princess, after all, and the Beast is every book girl’s favorite Disney hero. Sure, he’s a monster, but he gives her a library!”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“The magazine had run an interview with a neuroscientist some years ago, a guy who studied the effects of music on the brain, and it had shown that the music one loved in one's youth imprinted on the brain, literally making its own dopamine pathways, which was why people were always dancing in grocery store aisles. They weren't just happy; they were actually high on their own brains. Maybe that was why opera had fewer fans than musical theater---almost no one started listening to opera when they were twelve. Everyone Annie knew would have agreed that music was integral to life and offered a transcendent release from one's otherwise terrestrial existence.”
― Emma Straub, American Fantasy

“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners. Are you saying my son is a project? I imagined Doug saying. No, I imagined my mother replying. I’m saying he’s the cabinet corner.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Heathcliff, who let’s be honest was a stack of red flags in a frock coat rather than any kind of worthy book boyfriend—”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library