238 Quotes About Librarians
- Author Lemony Snicket
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The world is full of disappointment," I said."Yes," she said, "I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?""No," I said. "There's more than that.""Like what?""Like good books," I said, "and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once.
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- Author Nikita Gill
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I will take [my daughter] to the library, and introduce her to every librarian because they are where Athena lives now.
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- Author Jenny Offill
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She has never liked me because I don’t have a proper degree. Feral librarians, they call us, as in just wandered out of the woods.
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- Author Robert Arger
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Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.
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- Author Rahma Krambo
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As if on cue, a line of silhouettes emerged from behind a desert scrub—shapes that moved like cats. They wandered through the landscape of corpses, touching each with a gentle nudge. They grew closer, and it became clear that Chuluum was leading the other cats on their sorrowful homage, giving the fallen librarians the honor they deserved.
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
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- Author Patrick Ness
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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
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- Author Lisa Fipps
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She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted.Understood.I blink back tears.It's unknown how many students' liveslibrarians have savedby welcoming loners at lunch.
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- Author David Davis
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Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.
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