“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
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“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
“She couldn't do any worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out.”
“Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.”
“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.”
“The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a Black Hole that knows how to read.”
“There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.”
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