Ali Rowan

“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program can find aisle 3, shelf 13 all by itself. Simulated light from the simulated windows casts sharp-edged shadows through the simulated store. If this sounds impressive to you, you're over thirty.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“It was so easy to agree to what did not test us.”
― Ben Marcus

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”