When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
Piers AnthonyTags: libraries book-lovers
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]
Tags: life libraries reading exploration
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: libraries
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)]
Tags: inspirational libraries reading thoughtful exploration discovery
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
Patrick NessTags: inspirational libraries thoughtful
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Patrick NessTags: libraries inspirational-quotes thoughtful
Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.
Patrick NessTags: inspirational libraries thoughtful
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Patrick NessTags: inspirational libraries thoughtful
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
Erica BauermeisterNow look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
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