The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

If you want to be great, you must learn the secret of great men.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Drinking the mystery punch that will always get her

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.

The word 'love, ' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love, ” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.

Standing is harder than moving.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.