Цитаты из книги Among Others

Fairies always seem to prefer places the wild has crept back into.

I suppose all writers use characters as masks.

It`s lovely when writers I like like each other.

Libraries really are wonderful. They`re better than bookshops, even. I mean, bookshops make profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

There`s something nice about out-and-out children`s books with no sex and a happy ending.

To social services an auntie you have known all your life is nobody compared to a father you haven`t even met.

Let them fear me as long as they leave me alone. Let them hate me as long as they fear me.

It`s amazing how large the things are that it`s possible to overlook.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

Nobody who offers to lend me Zelazny could be as black as he’s been painted.

“I’ll buy you an orange juice,” Greg said to me. I didn’t say I hate Britvic orange, I said “Thank you.” Who says I have no social graces?

“Bibliotropic,” Hugh said. “Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop."