#libra

About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired. He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff." It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write. Books are boring," James said as he wrote. They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books." From A Certain Slant of Light ↗

— Laura Whitcomb

#libraries #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#library #reading #life

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

— Terry Pratchett

#monkey #music #music

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#librarians

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#art #books #hid #hour #i

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? ↗

— Paul Begala

#ago #america #bill #bill clinton #clinton

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#found #friend #good #library #life

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get