Books Quote by Lev Grossman

“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.”

— Lev Grossman

“the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability.…

— Rachel Caine

“The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.”

— Terry Pratchett

“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and…

— Umberto Eco

“In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.”

— Christina Stead

“I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time,…

— Molly Harper

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them…

— Terry Pratchett

“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!”

— Jim C. Hines

“Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately…

— Karen Doornebos

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

“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

“The headmaster explained. Books were considered precious. The school had so few that the teachers did not want to risk the children damaging them.…

— John Wood