825 Quotes About Library

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.

The Library is my haven. I can always find a corner of the stacks to call my own, to read and dream. I want to make sure everyone has that chance, most especially the people who feel different and need a place to call home.

Percy Buckle looked around his little room and knew he never had to weigh a pound of flour again in his life.I can read all day.Even as a grocer he had been a bookish fellow. All his life it had been the same -- even when he was too tired to manage more than half a page of Ivanhoe in a night, even when he smelt inescapably of sprats and mackerel, he had been a member of a lending library, and a regular attendant at the Workingman's Institute.

Books always leave a light on.

The texts are pristine, printed in colors so brilliant, the ink looks fresh. Every few feet, a spine pushes in between adjacent texts, like a new book has just been birthed. It’s a living library.

The personal library is…the archive of a reading life. Or perhaps a mausoleum in which, though sealed away, one lives like nowhere else.

Once, in the morning, I decided I would be a biologist, and spent hours in the library studying, preparing for my amazing career. I told the librarian, who still smiles at me. She must think I will get out of this place and make it one day. One book I found about organisms was so fascinating I sat down with it in the stacks, engrossed. It took me fifteen minutes to realise it was about orgasms. I read until lunch and then hid the book on the shelf.

Beat an archangel, divert war, save our souls. Simple as that?