Upside Ann

 He told me he wanted to do work that invigorated him.  He said, "You have to do that, too, Monique,.  When you're older.  You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small."

 One of the few reasons that she wasn't trying to run--which every instinct was screaming at her to do-- was that Lord Guantes was having too much fun gloating.  He was trapped in his criminal archetype.  One couldn't gloat at a corpse.   The corpse simply wouldn't appreciate it properly. ...where is Lord Silver's niece?"... "I took her to the Library" "You what?" "That's not very grammatical," Irene said, and earned another slap for it. "Yes, but did you see her scars?" Black Wig demanded. "And her left leg?" "She didn't have a left leg." "Precisely!" Is it obvious yet how much fun I'm having reading The Invisible Library series?  Aghhhh and there is only one more left!  And NOW I've lost my Kindle.   It will show up.  Things always do.  Well, except maybe for that left leg....

 “He was a very bad king, Mom!  He had gone to a very dark place in pursuit of organizational excellence!” Everyone in the Kingdom of Sunshine was cheerful, in that extremely graying way that makes your teeth ache… “Everyone seems very… happy…” said Wilber. “Yep,” said Harriet.  “Not gonna lie.  If I had to live here, I’d go evil in a week.  I’d be building an army of giant spider-chickens and saying things like, “No, Mr. Wilbur, I expect you to fit, muahahaha.”

 *We note that the Library has not had fire drills for the last two hundred years.  This is because we found the two default responses unhelpful.  These being “running away screaming” or “resigning yourself to death while clutching your favorite books.”  Librarians with more useful suggestions should contact Yves via email and attach a full benefit-threat analysis. “It’s not the duel I’m complaining about, it’s the calligraphy challenge that started the quarrel.”… But even here Kai had his sense of aesthetics.  “The choice of ink colors available was completely unsuitable, she should have demanded a steel pen, ands frankly the whole thing ought to have been called off until both parties could get better paper.  No wonder they came to blows instead of competing as planned.  It simply wasn’t possible for either to produce work representative of their skills.” “Jerome…what if we just pay them?” “Seriously?” Jerome seemed personally insulted by the very idea. So was Kai.  But there were mo

  “My life is painfully full of learning experiences where I’ve had to be an expert at short notice,” Irene said. “I look forward to being able to sit down for a few years, at some point, and try to forget them." She shuddered, and it wasn’t just from the cold. “When I think of all the things that could go wrong . . .”       “Hopefully not cyborg alligators this time,” Bradamant said with a frown.

 "And David saw himwelf reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his fathers child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart." "...and each man dreams his own heaven."