Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules…

— Alberto Manguel

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

— Isabel Allende

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

— Anonymous

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be…

— Libba Bray

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything…

— Rebecca Solnit

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was…

— Ray Bradbury

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

— Alberto Manguel

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house…

— George Bernard Shaw

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part…

— Ted Kooser

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

— James Boswell

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is…

— Jay Maisel