Robin Sloan Quotes

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• Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

  Robin Sloan

  Sleep, Library, Spirit

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

  Robin Sloan

  Knowing, Secret, World

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

  Robin Sloan

  Ideas, Darkness, Google

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Eye, Clouds

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

  Robin Sloan

  Learning Something New, Long, Evil

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

  Robin Sloan

  Emotional, Expression, Pages

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• Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Life, Cities, Way

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

  Robin Sloan

  Warrior, Guy, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

  Robin Sloan

  Giving, Advice, Millionaire

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

  Robin Sloan

  Mean, Secret, Whole Life

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

  Robin Sloan

  Running, Imagination, Analogies

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.

  Robin Sloan

  New York, Phones, Figures

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

  Robin Sloan

  Long, Giants, Empires

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.79, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Batteries, Fool

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

  Robin Sloan

  Mean, Media, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

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  Emergencies, Messages, Firsts

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Home, Lows

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Rosemary, Parks

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• If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

  Robin Sloan

  Sound, Thirty, Impressive

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!

  Robin Sloan

  Narnia, Chronicles

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

  Robin Sloan

  Quilts, Crazy, Thinking

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Light, Clerks

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

  Robin Sloan

  Reality, Dragons, Dungeons

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Boys, Eyebrows

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Lonely, Book, Dark

  "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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