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• I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

  Kami Garcia

  Answers, Problem, Lost

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• All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.

  Will Durant

  Plato, Home, Thinking

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• There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

  Rachel Simon

  Book, Two, Rereading

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• Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, World, Might

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• What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

  Jennifer Estep

  Always Trying, People, Warning

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Crimson Frost”, p.145, Kensington Books

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• Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Museums, Ideas

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• Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Phones, Bats, Slim

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey

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• And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

  Caitlin Moran

  Party, Book, Groups

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.74, Random House

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• Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.

  Jasper Fforde

  Powerful, Military, War

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• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Joy, Add

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.459, Macmillan

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• One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, One Day, Next

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

  Jeannette Walls

  Book, Track, Cards

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Reading, Home

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• She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least have mentioned it," said Charlotte. "As a matter of general interest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Games, Play

  "Doctor Who (Forest of the Dead)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. June 7, 2008.

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• Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

  J. Lynn

  Reading, Play, Bird

  J. Lynn (2012). “Tempting the Player”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Falling In Love, Smell

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• Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.952, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

  Amos Oz

  Growing Up, Book, Ambition

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Powerful, Book, Desire

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.412, RosettaBooks

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• The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing

  Caitlin Moran

  Rain, Fall, Math

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• I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?

  Cassandra Clare

  Saws, Mustard, Colonels

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

  Alvin Toffler

  Mind, Libraries Books And Reading, Libraries And Reading

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• I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

  Jennifer Estep

  Tired, Fighting, Getting Tired

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Dark Frost”, p.149, Kensington Books

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