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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul."

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating [...] if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

“There are books, like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about. Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

"Here, at last, is all that is right with the world. Here is life. She is the antidote to all the darkness that poisons this world. When she is near I care nothing of debts and vampires. There is only her."

"Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?"