“What's going to happen to us?”

“Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.”

“War is when people kill one another, right? Why would they do that?”

“Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.”

“Fire . . . Does that light by itself?”

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to ma...”

“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”