Library Quotes

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Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and… — Heather Brewer
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
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be… — Maud Hart Lovelace
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. — Jean-Paul Sartre
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in… — W.N.P. Barbellion
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. — Alan Bennett
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one… — Ray Bradbury
I didn't think about being king,â€ he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. â€œYour capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think… — Megan Whalen Turner
Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meâ€”I spotted something between… — Tom Stoppard
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. — Neil Gaiman
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging… — Elizabeth von Arnim
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you… — Bryce Courtenay
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't… — Gary Paulsen
When all else fails, give up and go to the library. — Stephen King
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will… — Anne Lamott
The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty… — Claudia Gray
A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. — Lilian Jackson Braun
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to itâ€”because it reminded him… — Brandon Sanderson

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