I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

La vita non si scrive con le parole, disse il mostro. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

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

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians