“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

—  Libba Bray, book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

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American teen writer 1964

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