Responsibility Quote by Philip Pullman

“That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young…

— Philip Pullman

“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety…

— Shannon Hale

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell you that…

— Helen Callaghan

“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

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“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

“She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated…

— Betty Smith

“she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. “We”

— Garth Nix

“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

“I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older…

— Alice Hoffman