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Quotes from The Forbidden Library — Django Wexler

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Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

“What do you see here?”
“Books?”
“Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”

The Forbidden Library (2014)

The sum total of Alice’s medical knowledge was that blood was supposed to stay on the inside.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

But—though she was not an expert on cats—she was fairly certain that they did not, as a rule, snicker.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

“Patience, my friend.”
“I’m not your friend. And I’m not patient.”

The Forbidden Library (2014)

He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

Some things are more important than following the rules.
Aren’t they?

The Forbidden Library (2014)

In desperation, she slid her fingers in the cracks between blocks, looking for some kind of catch or hidden mechanism. Which was ridiculous, she thought, because how complicated could a secret door be if a cat figured it out?

The Forbidden Library (2014)

After the cousins came the accountants, who were more open in their appraisals and didn’t bother with Alice at all, and after the accountants, like a Biblical plague building up to a big finish, came the lawyers.

The Forbidden Library (2014)

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