#library

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. ↗

— Harold Howe

#libraries #library #school #education

Oh, wow." "What do you think?" "I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much more--" "Think it's large enough to keep you satisfied for a while?" "It's so much bigger than I expected" He backed away, leaving Beatrice to gaze in wonder at the library that took up half of the second floor. "I think I'll just leave you two alone for a bit," he said with a chuckle. ↗

— Elizabeth Hunter

#giovanni #library #sexual-innuendo #imagination

Some people write letters, in the library. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#library #imagination

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. ↗

— John Green

#life-s-library #read #life

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read. ↗

— Eleanor Brown

#reading #love

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 were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask! ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#organization #public-library #reference #men

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#buses #democracy #less #library #more

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future