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Maybe she wouldn't fire him. It might be more fun to keep him around and make his life miserable.
Oh, God, she thought. I'm going to be a terrible boss.

All stories begin before they start and never, ever finish.

'Are you sure you do not wish to have some? You keep looking at the bowl.'
'It's what fat women do. Stare at food.'

The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

Well, someone has to be! I'm nearly twenty-six and I can't even point to a best friend. Do you know how freakish that is for a girl? Girls are all about best friends, even when you hate each other.

What good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you mean?

He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never really owned.

What was more perfect an object than a book?

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

It was a moment like when he found the crane, or the crane found him, a moment of stopped time, a moment to live in forever.