Library Quotes - Page 13

• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

  Lauren Willig

  Cousin, Reality, Historical Novels

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• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Death is an ascension to a better library.

  John Donne

  Ascension

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• When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Teaching, Book

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, People, Looks

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Would Be, Honest

  "The Light Fantastic (Discworld, Book 2)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

  Daniel Quinn

  Secret, Facts, Found

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever she saw him at work—something like butterflies in her stomach, it was actually quite annoying; no more stress; no more fights in the library; and definitely no more sexy I’m-gonna-kiss-you-now-woman blue-eyed heated gazes. She had no idea why she just thought that.

  Julie James

  Sexy, Stress, Butterfly

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.113, Penguin

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• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  Cheyenne McCray

  New York, Olivia, Demon

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Men, May

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• Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Feb 14, 2017

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• Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

  Maxim Gorky

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

  William James

  Dog, Book, Cat

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Hunting, Hands

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• But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

  Betty Smith

  Book, Hard Work, Smell

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Garth Nix

  Writing, Going Away, Identity

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.300, Hot Key Books

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• She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Wall, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.903, Simon and Schuster

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• (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

  Nick Hornby

  Art, Book, Home

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• ...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

  Deb Caletti

  Stories, Volume, Shelves

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Moving, Book, Smell

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Fall, Men

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• What better place to kill time than a library?

  Diane Setterfield

  Better Place

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Growing Up, Book, Mean

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• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  Barack Obama

  Children, Forever, Magic

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