There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries
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Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]
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Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.
Patrick NessStichwörter: inspirational libraries thoughtful
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Patrick NessStichwörter: inspirational libraries thoughtful
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians
Patrick NessStichwörter: inspirational librarians thoughtful
Simone! Are you all right? Simone!"
And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?"
And-
And it ain't Simone's voice.
The smoke starts to clear.
And it ain't Simone.
"You saved me, Todd," says the Mayor, lying there, bad burns all over his face and hands, his clothes smoking like a brush fire. "You saved my life."
And his eyes are full of wonder of it-
That in the rush of the explozhun the person I chose to save-
The one I chose without even thinking-
(without there even being time for him to control me-)
(no time for him to make me do it-)
Was the Mayor.
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And then his noise falls completely silent-
And he stops struggling-
And looking right into my eyes-
He dies.
My Todd dies.
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This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
Patrick NessStichwörter: war
Poo Todd!
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