“Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those… — Martha Cooley Gatekeepers Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always… — Martha Cooley Books Copy Share Image
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than… — Martha Cooley Existence Copy Share Image
“Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.” — Martha Cooley Child Copy Share Image
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.” — Martha Cooley Library Copy Share Image
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man… — Martha Cooley Archivists Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was… — Martha Cooley Book Copy Share Image
“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.” — Martha Cooley History Copy Share Image
“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.” — Martha Cooley Community Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew -- in the incontestable way that children know things… — Martha Cooley Books Copy Share Image
