“Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.”
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“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”