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“It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s churches, and the university library, containing one edition of every book ever ...”
“Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)”
“He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.”
“Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matt...”
“Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.”
“There’s always books. And the wind through trees.”
“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as I delicately peer at the words and paragraphs. Each book home to a story, giving its character...”
“He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any h...”
“Seriously?” Spartacus looked amazed. “I thought this looked the same to everyone. We’re in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It’s beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeo...”
“..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..”
“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.”
“New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old...”
“The gift of a good story is as infinite as the stars.”
“Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.”
“On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.”
“There was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seemed to be made of books. I told him that we needed information, and he got us some butterfly nets a...”
“Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of shelves and glass cases and the musty smell of all the books, the door locked from the inside ag...”
“Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.”
“Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.”
“You have that look on your face,” she whispered mockingly, “that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through o...”
