“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and t...”

“We are all living history, and its hard to say now what will be important in the future. One things certain, though: if we throw it away, its gone.”

“We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-an...”

“One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives whe...”

“We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and socia...”

“Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.”

“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”

“One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives whe...”

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.”

“Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hou...”

“The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.”

“All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.”

“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them...I had to be able to take books from their places, run my finger over their...”