Library Quotes - Page 17

• The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Home, Names

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• I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

  Neal Shusterman

  Jobs, Book, Kids

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• Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all. I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Book, Kids

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• When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.

  Franny Billingsley

  Piano, Rose, Needs

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.39, A&C Black

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• When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Blow, Land

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doubt, Funny Harry Potter, Doe

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Caves, Made, Wanted

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• A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Rooms, Lectures

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• The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

  Steven Moffat

  Fall, Swimming, Doctors

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• Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Singing, Volume

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.885, Delacorte Press

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• The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

  Gordon Korman

  Dog, Book, Awards

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• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Reading, Light

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012

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• Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Wings, Flying

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.170, Penguin

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• It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

  Jo Walton

  Budgets

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• It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Nerd, Tables

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• You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Morning, Book, Evening

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• Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

  Heather Brewer

  Book, Dust, Solitude

  Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.90, Penguin

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• Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

  Robin Sloan

  Sleep, Spirit, Spine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Hair, Ears, Mouths

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• I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Important, Saws

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

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• An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.12, Courier Dover Publications

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• It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Kind

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• When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fire, Sky

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Moving, Mean

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