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
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 NessTags: inspirational librarians thoughtful
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Patrick NessTags: inspirational libraries thoughtful
Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.
Anne YlvisakerTags: humor thoughtful middle-grade
I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine.
I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.
Tags: thoughtful author-s-words too-little-too-late
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson IITags: thoughtful
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
Michael OndaatjeTags: power reflective thoughtful pensive
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