Library Quotes - Page 14

• The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?

  Lori Lansens

  Book, Dust, Years

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• I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

  Pete McCarthy

  Reading, Study, Drink

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.258, Macmillan

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• Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

  Dan Brown

  Reading, Men, Ivy

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• And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Boys, Men

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• This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

  David Benioff

  Dirty, Book, Adventure

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• Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Soul, Ink

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 02, 2014

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• It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

  Rachilde

  Book, Passion, Self

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Ideas, People

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• When in doubt, go to the library.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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

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• I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Needs, May

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• One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

  Bell Hooks

  United States, Institutions, Subversive

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Book, Mean, Cards

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.322, LSU Press

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• I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Beautiful, Morning, Book

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.10, Zola Books

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• I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

  Grace Paley

  Husband, Years, Twenties

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.129, Macmillan

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• Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Style, Inventory

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• Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Girl, Hurt, Kindness

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

  Stephen King

  Too Much, Cards, Library Cards

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

  Dorothy Allison

  Father, Book, Daddy

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• Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle Seth is famous, him getting a woman like you defies belief.” I laughed and smoothed down the skirt of my dress. “I don’t know about that. I don’t think your dad gives your uncle enough credit." Brandy gave me a sage look, worthy of someone much older. “Uncle Seth spent last Valentine’s Day at a library.

  Richelle Mead

  Uncles, Dad, Valentine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.89, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

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• Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

  Jim Butcher

  Wizards, Computer, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Vampire, Dissecting

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