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“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They dont get upset when you dont send them a card on their birthdays. (Though they will charge you if youre late returning a book....”
“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response.No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they ...”
“I do not understand people who will lustily throw $40,000 at the shiny red automobile of their choice, but well up with tears and become outraged when they are asked to pay $5 for a damaged videota...”
“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
“It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.”
“Great. He was a hottie, a good kisser, and a literature buff. God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended ...”
“Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.”
“Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling leather--would be oppressive, a place to flee from in searc...”
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
“There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...”
“That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.”
“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”
“Everything I am is based on this ugly building on its lonely lawn—lit up during winter darkness; open in the slashing rain—which allowed a girl so poor she didn’t even own a purse to come in twice ...”
“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on their birthdays. (Though they will charge you if you’re late returning a bo...”
“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess”
“Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free," Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries," Caroline said.”
