Books Quote by Karen Doornebos

“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice…

— Diane Setterfield

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a reticence that…

— Jesse Giles Christiansen

“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack…

— Robert Masello

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

“It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.”

— Charlotte M. Vaile

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

— Jeanette Winter

“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in…

— Jane Austen

“Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book…

— Rebecca Makkai

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf