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• The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

  Robin Sloan

  New York, People, Dawn

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

  Robin Sloan

  Loyalty, Nebula, Favors

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Book, Wine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

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  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it -- what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face -- not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all. Kat's micromuscles are very attractive.

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  Girl, Stars, Eye

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

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

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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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• Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

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  Book, Trying, Might

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

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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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• I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

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  Together, World, Littles

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

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  Guilt, Wikipedia, Language

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

  Robin Sloan

  America, Google, Defense

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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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