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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries. — Gustave Flaubert

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries. — Ray Bradbury

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books. — Natalie S. Bober

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci

Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books. — Stephanie Harvey

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. — Mark Billingham

A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read! — Gemma Jackson

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world. — Trudy Wallis

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. — Harper Lee

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work — Larry Brown

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two. — Lemony Snicket

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. — William Hazlitt

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. — Alberto Manguel

Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom. — Sarah Noffke

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. — Mo Willems

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. — Carlos Maria Dominguez

I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life. — Andrew Smith

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. — Raymond Chandler

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world. — Sophie Divry

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all. — Maya Panika

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. — David Strathairn

Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven't been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer. — Ben Bova

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington

There is a value to books - unhackable, paper books - that measures far beyond mere ink and paper. — Richard Due

Books are carnival rides for your imagination. — Richelle E. Goodrich

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section. — Joyce Rachelle

Libraries are zoos for books. — Craig Dworkin

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. — Richard Baxter

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. — Adriana Trigiani

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it! — Avijeet Das

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. — Jean Fritz

But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library. — B.J. Novak

It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels. — Kelly Link

Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read — Cynthia Hand

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians. — Neil Gaiman

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. — Joan Bauer

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. — Robin Sloan

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. — Anne Herbert

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death. — Garrett Leigh

The library was the best place in the world. — Anita Anand

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building? — Sara Sheridan

You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. — Ray Bradbury

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words ... — Lindsay Eland

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. — Scott Douglas

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse. — Paul Acampora

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them. — Augusta Scattergood

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. — Erica Bauermeister

Fields are places in books, and books are placed in libraries. — Morrissey

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. — Alberto Manguel

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure. — Kit Pearson

Libraries raised me. — Ray Bradbury

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries. — Neil Gaiman

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
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Growing
Excitement — J. Patrick Lewis

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit. — Jeanette Winter

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library. — Sarah Noffke

When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough — Josh Hanagarne

The library is like a candy store where everything is free. — Jamie Ford

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. — Andrew Carnegie

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. — Anita Anand

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions. — Trudy Wallis

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were. — Mike Bove

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job. — John Berry