Library Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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