Kellie

“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.”
― Marion Jensen, Almost Super

“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers

“But she always kept on until the end. She knew, as i knew, that you don't stop a story half done. You keep on going, through heartbreak and pain and fear, and times there is a happy ending, and times there isn't. Don't matter. You don't cut a flower half through and then wait and watch as it slowly shrivels to death. And you don't stop a story before you reach the end. - A Creature of Moonlight”
― Rebecca Hahn, A Creature of Moonlight

“I regret no words," Frederic said. "i love words. and the words i just spoke were the truth. you are a coward, because only a coward would rather defenestrate a helpless old man than face me in a fair fight."
"I wasn't gonna defenish-"
"Defenestrate."
"Yeah, I wasn't gonna defenestrate him," the winghaired man said. "I was gonna throw him out the window.”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw