a library QUOTES

1 " To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. "

2 " He’d mesmerized her, held her soul captive. And she couldn’t move.
“Unless you want more than a dream,” he said.
She did.
“Will you stay?” he whispered. “Or will you go?”
She stayed. Heaven help her, she stayed.
And Michael showed her just how romantic a library could be. "

― Julia Quinn

3 " What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." , American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972] "

4 " I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one. "

― Walter Moers

5 " It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in. "

6 " It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home. "

7 " A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a "

8 " She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. "

― Shannon Hale , The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)

9 " We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are. "

― Alberto Manguel

10 " I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)

11 " Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list. "

― Kellie Elmore , Magic in the Backyard

12 " It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. "

― Alberto Manguel , The Library at Night

13 " In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,—some of them,—and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,—not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

14 " The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. "

― Elizabeth McCracken

15 " Who wants a library full of books you've already read? "

16 " What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex "

17 " Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books. "

― Kate Evangelista , Taste

18 " The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come. "

― Edmund S. Morgan , American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

19 " ...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.'

'But you have just told me you were sexton here!'

'So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! "

― George MacDonald , Lilith

20 " Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It’s the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion. "

― Deb Caletti , The Last Forever

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