Library Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

  Alan Moore

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

  Jana Oliver

  Demon, Attraction

  Jana Oliver (2010). “Retro Demonology”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and immediately I knew that she was right. It was exactly like the library at the Gallagher Academy, from the position of the fireplace to the tall windows that overlooked the grounds. 'How do you know?' Zach asked. Liz looked totally insulted. 'Because...uh...library.' 'Okay.' Zach threw up his hands. 'Point taken.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Taken, Hands

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

  Caitlin Moran

  Islands, Space, Imagination

  "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

  Neal Shusterman

  Book, School, Average

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• There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

  Laura Lippman

  Real, Book, Serendipity

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• I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Quiet

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Men, Weak Man

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• Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Long, Dozen, Please

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• I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Coffins, Bookworms, Ifs

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• Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

  Richelle Mead

  News, Rooms, Homework

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.310, Penguin

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• I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Sleep

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• You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Order, Helping

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.249, Delacorte Press

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beach, Luxury, Water

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

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• You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

  Steven Moffat

  Book, World, Want

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• Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

  Mira Grant

  Issues, People, Needs

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Smart, College

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2012). “Smart Girls Get What They Want”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

  Kim Harrison

  Book, Chocolate, Als

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