He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.
Lauren DeStefanoTags: books wither sadness library fever lauren-destefano chemical-garden-trilogy sever
She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
Ally CarterLibrary-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
Joanne HarrisTags: humor inspirational libraries library
To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
Sophie DivryTags: libraries books culture library
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."
À qui la faute? (1872)
Tags: wisdom books knowledge learning library errors collection contract-with-the-future generational-contract
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.
Edward BellamyTags: change library library-books customer-service
Sam hauled open the library door.
"There you are!" Whit pushed up from the desk he'd been hunched over. "We thought you two had given up on us."
"Unlike some people I know," I said, removing my mittens and scarf, "we don't live here."
"She says that now." Sam followed me toward Whit's and Orrin's desks, where they worked over flat electronic screens. "But the first thing she said when I showed her the library was that we should move in."
Orrin lifted an eyebrow, oddly delicate for someone so large. "The acoustics would be terrible.
Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.
Jean M. TwengeTags: library
The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.
Inglath CooperAn even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man being ushered past the checkout counter. “See,” one librarian remarked quietly to an amazed person, “that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines.
Ray B. BrowneTags: silence librarians quiet library fines
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