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When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set ...more

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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable ...more

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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, ...more

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to c...more

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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...more

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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic...more

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her...more