Librarians Quote by Eleanor Brown

““Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.””

Eleanor Brown

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There is no problem a library card can't solve.

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“But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.”

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“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How do you…

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“Sisters keep secrets. Because sisters' secrets are swords.”

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“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”

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“Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes…

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“Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in…

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“Oh honey, we’re all fuckups in our own special ways.”

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“This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was…

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“We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.”

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“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

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“And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.”

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“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.”

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“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful. ”They like everything,”…

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“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that we look them in the eye and take them seriously. Our work demands that we become dreamers, holding onto hope that our society can be better, that we affirm for our patrons that they are still part of…

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“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.”

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“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his…

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