“Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.”
“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”
“Maybe it’s not even his master plan; maybe it’s, like, the American Library Association’s master plan, and they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.”
“Anything really is possible in musical theater.”
“But, hey. Out of all the demons I have met, she is my favorite by, like, infinity.”
“An evil librarian is taking over the school. He appears to be making my best friend his special evil library monitor.”
“I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust.”
“He said my name. He knows what my name is. He spoke it out loud and used it in a sentence.”
“Every demon loves Sweeney Todd, you know. It’s kind of a given.”
“He looks at me again and the flames vanish and the knife is gone and his voice goes light and breezy and all coffee-shop conversational, as if he wasn't just one second ago impaling me with fiery eyes and discussing the dark fate of my best friend and the souls of all my classmates.”
“Finally, eternal gratitude to all the (100 percent non-evil) librarians and other library staffers I have known and worked with and been helped and inspired by over the years. I don’t know where I would be without you!”
“Mr. Gabriel is clearly insane, evil and dangerous and insane (and let’s not forget, you know, a demon).”
“He's doing some kind of demony witch-craft (demoncraft?), and there is someone's blood all over the place, and do evil murdering demon librarians generally let witnesses to their crimes go running off into the late afternoon to tattle to the world? No. No, they don't.”
“Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.”
“Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.”
“I just want to build the set for the show and be secretly in love with Ryan and not have to fight demons.”
“There is buzz among the populace.”
“After all of this, I do not want to be eaten by some random demon who just wanted a postshow snack.”
“But you're - your'e not-' Ryan stops, swallows, starts again. 'You're not human,' he says.”
“Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.”
“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”
“He loved TV Guide. He never watched television, didn’t need to—he got everything he needed from the magazine”
“But do the governors themselves need that? Are they ready to line up under the vertikal? They are. After all, the governors are part of the country, and they also suffer from management weaknesses. Not everyone is going to like everything. You can’t please everybody, but you can find some common approaches. I was also interested in learning more about the country. I had only ever worked in St. Petersburg, apart from the time I spent abroad. . . . Of course, my seven years of experience in Peter was good experience, both administrative and managerial. But Peter isn’t the whole country. I wanted to travel and see things. So, why did you drop that interesting job and go to work as director of the FSB? Do you have some affinity for the agencies? No. I wasn’t asked whether or not I wanted to go, and they had given me no inkling that I was even being considered for such an appointment. The president simply signed a decree. . . .”
“Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman.”
“In every breeze exhales the promise of spring,
Each sleeping tree
dreams green dreams;
the barren mountain
wakes in blossom.”
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