#library

He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library. ↗

— Laura Whitcomb

#humor #kiss #laura-whitcomb #library #reading

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. ↗

— Ally Carter

#library #humor

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#ignorance #lemony-snicket #library #humor

they should let some people into the library by prescription only ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#library #reading #humor

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#library #libry #humor

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #library #life #experience

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated. ↗

— Michael Gorman

#library-in-the-digital-age #library-science #age

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over ↗

— Darryl Pinckney

#library #love #love

There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #change

The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#books #evernight #library #age