476 Quotes About Libraries

What is a library, but a temple of truth? What other function do books have, the great ones, but to change the reader? Books to comfort. But most of all, books to disturb you forward.

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library?

Each spine with its shelf-mark code in familiar typewriter font, each date stamp a footprint of readers gone before and each shelf with its alphabetical ordering - these things align to provide the orderliness so cherished in a library. There is safety and structure amongst the stacks. Everything has a place, and you have found yours.

Libraries are not failing "because they are libraries." Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

What proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some way strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?

They walked into the library and a gust of heated air welcomed them inside. Safe. The idea was ridiculous given the bad guys chasing her, but nothing bad had ever happened to her in a library.

Libraries are not failing 'because they are libraries'. Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

The first clue to any librarian that they are in charge of a warehouse is that they have no control over the heating and air conditioning despite the complaints of those in the large depository.

Neiti Mountjoy! Eläkkeellä oleva neiti Mountjoy! Olin kuullut tarinoita neiti Mountjoysta ja kauhun aikakaudesta. Hän oli ollut Bishop's Laceyn yleisen kirjaston johtavana kirjastonhoitajana josilloin, kun Nooa seilasi paatillaan. Ulospäin hän oli oikein hurmaava, mutta sisältä oikea "pahantahtoisuuden palatsi". Tai niin minulle oli kerrottu. ...Kyläläiset pyysivät edlleen iltarukouksissaan, että neiti Mountjoy pysyisi eläkkeellä.