#libraries

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#languor #libraries #sexuality #dreams

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#libraries #sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #idea

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. ↗

— Brian Selznick

#library

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

Libraries are our friends. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#library

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

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What in the world would we do without our libraries? ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#library #library

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#community #enrich #libraries #community

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. ↗

— Polly Horvath

#libraries #reading #summer #self-knowledge

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader. ↗

— S.R. Ranganathan

#libraries #librarians