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Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.

Meh.

The literary puns and references became too much of a good thing a few chapters in, and I found myself not caring what happened: to the puns or to the characters saying them. I’m also annoyed by the secondary and pointless “f” in Fforde.

Ordinary adults don’t like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

…we all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it’s easier. Human emotions, well . . . they’re just a fathomless collection of grays and I don’t do so well on the midtones.