Library Quotes - Page 18

• Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ladders, Legs

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Breathing, People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.120, A&C Black

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• I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Imagination, Soldier

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• When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.82, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

  Bryce Courtenay

  Two, Brain, Looks

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Answers

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• When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Failing, When All Else Fails

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Peculiar, Way

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• In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

  Anne Lamott

  War, Space, Laughing

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.143, Penguin

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• The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

  Claudia Gray

  Wall, Book, Dark

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• A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Adventure, Kids, Cards

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• AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Firsts, Found

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Three Fantasies - Tales from the Cosmere: Elantris, The Emperor's Soul, Warbreaker”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Religious

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Oct 02, 2016

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• He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

  Brian Selznick

  Mom, Dream, Dad

  Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic

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• I've got libraries in my blood.

  Charlaine Harris

  Blood

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Dead Over Heels”, p.29, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• they should let some people into the library by prescription only

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Should, Prescriptions

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.203, Random House

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• Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

  Donita K. Paul

  Book, Bed, Curls

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• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Land, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Order, Giving, Kitchen

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Pouring, Evening, Wells

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• All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

  Mo Willems

  Life Changing, Ideas, Useless

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• I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Book, Thinking

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• So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thug, Two, Giving

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• You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Doors, Kitchen, Moments

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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