Ali Rowan

“Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves.”
― Ben Marcus

“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

“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.”
― Mark Haddon, Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

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