Quotes by Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?""Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with th — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell t — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleepi — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fas — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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 — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it al — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?""Sounds like a Japanese game show."Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsi — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? A — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and ir — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my pro — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of th — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several ident — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a m — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore