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101 " What better place to kill time than a library? "
― Diane Setterfield , The Thirteenth Tale
102 " How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library. "
― Eilis O'Neal , The False Princess
103 " A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being. "
104 " In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like. "
― William Stafford
105 " You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar ! "
― Catherynne M. Valente , The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3)
106 " The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children. "
― Julie Andrews Edwards
107 " There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, #11)
108 " When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise. "
109 " The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition. "
110 " Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago. "
― Stephen Greenblatt
111 " I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work "
― Larry Brown , Dirty Work