Quotes from William Sleator

I learn more from books than from people

He reached out and took her hand. Neither cared that someone might see. They had been taught all their lives that the only deep feelings between men and women were sexual, but now they knew that it was a lie. They were friends and they loved one another, and their hand-holding was perfectly innocent. It was one more thing to rejoice in, one more way in which they had risen above the system, above the machine.

The discomforting claim made by biologists that people live among dense swarms of invisible microorganisms--no matter how "hygienic" people imagine themselves to be--turned out to be true.

Without hesitation they began to dance.

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and