Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

...I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?“No,” he said. “They’re the ones who are asking for too little.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?