Argument Quote by Pat Conroy

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you…

— Gary Paulsen

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

— Ally Carter

“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

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she…

— Sherman Alexie

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“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

“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

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

— Deb Caletti

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great…

— Anonymous