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When someone’s life fascinates, makes you jealous; don’t wish for his life, wish for his attitude, strong mentality, adaptability. Because, Life is too complicated than you think, you never know what his sacrifice, hard work, and skills in handling situation, made his life more appealing for others.
— Vivek Thangaswamy
Never wish a legendary love
—  you don’t know who hard is to have a simple one.
Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
— Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
— Tim LaHaye, Tribulation Force
We were each of us trying
—  trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so.
— Ginny Baird, Real Romance
Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth 
— uzair safi
If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride.
— Jennifer Haymore, Pleasures of a Tempted Lady
Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.
— Ann Aguirre, Foundation
Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
— Anne Sexton
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
— Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.
— Neil Gaiman
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
— Jo Walton, Among Others
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.
— Neil Gaiman
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
— Graham Chapman
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
— Joan Bauer
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.
— Linton Weeks
A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.
— Vicki Myron, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
— bell hooks, Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
— Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on their birthdays. (Though they will charge you if you’re late returning a book.) They serve communities. The town without a library is a town without a soul. The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance. Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn’t allow that torch to be extinguished.
— Libba Bray
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
— Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears
Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response.No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask!
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many r
— Jon Bing
I do not understand people who will lustily throw $40,000 at the shiny red automobile of their choice, but well up with tears and become outraged when they are asked to pay $5 for a damaged videotape. Either they are fucked up and their priorities are fucked up or I am fucked up and my priorities are fucked up. Because I am me, I think it is them.
— Don Borchert, Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.
— Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.
— S.R. Ranganathan
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
— Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
— Jo Walton
I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.
— Charles M. Schulz
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
— Ray Bradbury
Great. He was a hottie, a good kisser, and a literature buff. God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line. Suddenly, I found myself thinking back to Atonement—you know, the scene in the book where the two main characters have sex in the library? Even though Chloe said doing it against bookshelves would be really uncomfortable (and she’d probably know), it was still a fantasy of mine. Like, what’s more romantic than a quiet place full of books? But I shouldn’t have been thinking about my library fantasies. Especially while I was staring at Cash. In the middle of a library.
— Kody Keplinger, Shut Out
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.
— Gary Paulsen, Mudshark
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
— Patrick Ness
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
— Connie Willis
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
— Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood
Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling leather--would be oppressive, a place to flee from in search of sun and air. To others, like me, it was a wonderful cave filled with unimaginable treasures and unexpected treats. I always found myself inhaling deeply when I entered the stacks, as if trying to absorb part of them into my bloodstream.
— Sheila Connolly, Fundraising the Dead
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
— Norman Cousins
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.
— Libba Bray
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
— Bacon, Francis
The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.
— Lucy Dillon, The Secret of Happy Ever After
Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.
— Eleanor Crumblehulme library assistant University of British Columbia
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.
— Willard Scott
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, allowing herself to grow closer and closer to Compleat, to notice more and more how fine and straight his shelves remained, despite great structural stress. That sort of moral fortitude is rare in this day and age. By and by, my siblings and I were born and romped on the balconies, raced up and down the splintered ladders, and pored over many encyclopedias and exciting novels. I know just everything about everything—so long as it beings with A through L.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.
— Neil Gaiman
When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect.﻿ Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class.
— Alan Moore
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
— Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.
— Marilyn Johnson
Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do a piece on something in Nevada, and you go down to C Floor, deep in the earth, and out to what a miner would call a remote working face. You find 10995.497S just where the card catalog and the online computer thought it would be, but that is only the initial nick. The book you knew about has led you to others you did not know about. To the ceiling the shelves are loaded with books about Nevada. You pull them down, one at a time, and sit on the floor and look them over until you are sitting on a pile five feet high, at which point you are late home for dinner and you get up and walk away. It's an incomparable boon to research, all that; but it is also a reason why there are almost no large open-stack libraries left in the world.
— John McPhee
It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011
— Russell Grandinetti
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.
— Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams
Civilized nations build libraries
—  lands that have lost their soul close them down.
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
— Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. Her parents had made a lot of mistakes, a fact Tess compulsively shared on first dates, but she gave them credit for doing one thing right: Starting when she was eight, they gave her a library card and dropped her off at the downtown Pratt every Saturday while they shopped. Twenty-one years later, Tess still entered through the children's entrance on the side, pausing to toss a penny in the algae-coated fish pond, then climbing the stairs to the main hall. If she could be married here, she would.
— Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues
Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers
— Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one — at least, no male person — ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As soon as you approached she pierced you through and through with a flash of her pince-nez and let you know that your dirty secret was no secret from HER. After all, all works of reference are pornographical, except perhaps Whitaker’s Almanack. You can put even the Oxford Dictionary to evil purposes by looking up words like —— and ——.
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.
— Patrick Ness
A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being.
— Anne Osborn
My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.
— Craig Silverstein
The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess
— David   Drake, Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library
If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.
— James H. Billington
in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder
— Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?
— Mark Moran
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
— Patrick Ness
...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.
— Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Late fees are the enemy of early literacy because instead of promoting responsible behavior, they suppress library visits for some of the people who need the institution the most. And of course these fees don't promote children being more responsible, but only reveal to children how irresponsible, ignorant, or unaware their own parents are. -- Amy Dickinson
— Kyle Cassidy, This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information
I thought I appreciated books, but this was an alter to the book gods. It was hard not to be impressed. I didn't know what had the most impact: the rosewood shelving, the rolling library ladders, the mezzanine floor with the ornate spiral wrought-iron staircases at each end, the carved moldings, the scent of well-loved books, or the silky Aubusson rugs in a soft faded palette of rose, sage and aqua.
— Victoria Abbott, The Christie Curse
Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to better direction.
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries
— Abid Hussain Library Officer
the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.
— Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek librarian overlords and the world is full of awesome.
— Sarah Houghton
There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.
— Richard Due
Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman
— Kyle Cassidy, This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information
She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to ten or twelve pages: Lilia, Gabriel, Anna, Michelle. In every town her name was different.
— Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free," Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries," Caroline said.
— Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.
— Anita Brookner, Look at Me
A recurring theme in the book is instinct versus articulation. Although teen services people may know and understand issues on an instinctive level, they must be prepared to articulate these ideas in the face of threats to teen services.
— Jennifer Velásquez, Real-World Teen Services
It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.
— Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.
— Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind-- I suppose in my isolation-- I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.
— Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World
Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still...
— Tom Angleberger
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Marie's loud protestations about the lack of black history celebrations in town had resulted in a sheepish and hastily thrown together assembly each year at the public library, where all the while children and Adia sang praises to peanuts and open-heart surgery and air-conditioning underneath a store-printed banner that read THE WONDERS OF BLACK INNOVATION.
— Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman
You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.
— Joanne Hall, Rider
The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Libraries are safe but also exciting. Libraries are where nerds like me go to refuel. They are safe-havens where the polluted noise of the outside world, with all the bullies and bro-dudes and anti-feminist rhetoric, is shut out. Libraries have zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protect us and keep us safe from all the bastards that have never read a book for fun.
— Gabby Rivera
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I remember as a very young child being warned that libraries and bookstores were quiet places where noise wasn’t allowed. Here was yet another thing the adults had gotten wrong, for these book houses pulsed with sounds; they just weren’t noisy. The books hummed. The collective noise they made was like riding on a large boat where the motor’s steady thrum and tickle vibrated below one’s sneakers, ignorable until you listened, then omnipresent and relentless, the sound that carried you forward. Each book brimmed with noises it wanted to make inside your head the moment you opened it; only the shut covers prevented it from shouting ideas, impulses, proverbs, and plots into that sterile silence.
— Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.
— William Stafford
Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert – you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it’s more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you’re trying to find a specific flower,” Gaiman said. “Anyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they’re doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they’re doing.
— Neil Gaiman
There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You're probably right. But none of you can take the Library.
— Seanan McGuire, The Winter Long
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
— Barack Obama
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish.
— Konstantinos Staikos
They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good of libraries?
— Jo Walton, Among Others
The Leningrad Public Library remained open throughout the siege and became a place for people to congregate. People came to the library to read, even when weak from cold and exhaustion . . . Some died in their places, with a book propped in front of them . . . In the course of the war, the librarians greatly expanded the collection, purchasing books from the starving, who were desperate to sell anything for food. Some of the city's librarians scoured bombed ruins for volumes, scrabbling over the piles of brick with their backpacks full of salvaged books.
— M.T. Anderson
I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
— William Osler
Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.
— Donald A. Barclay
Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.
— William Joyce, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
— Guy Browning
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— David Mamet
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
— Sarah Noffke, Stunned
some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.
— Richard Armour
When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.
— Mike Bove
Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.
— Peter Morville, Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.
— Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom.
— Sarah Noffke, Stunned
Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.
— Elizabeth McCracken
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001
— Tatyana Eckstrand, The Librarian's Book of Quotes
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
— Henry Rollins
You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.
— John             Lewis, March: Book One
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
— Garth Nix, Lirael
Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves.... Moments made physical, untouchable, perfect, like preserving a dead hornet in crystal, one drop of venom forever hanging from its stinger.She felt overwhelmed. It was--she briefly thinks of herself and Vo, reading together in the library--a lot like being in love for the first time.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.
— Robert Arger
That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or in its management. To the great mass of the people it comes as their first and only educational opportunity.
— John Cotton Dana, A Library Primer
The door of Reverend Verringer’s impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it.
— Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
The bright stars of the skies are far to touch
—  but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!
I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.
— Scarlet Jackson Pearce
Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library. Then , when Robinson goes to the bookseller in Philadelphia let him start with the first of each of our chooses, then the second of each, and so on down, omitting duplicates, of course. Let him go as far as his money lasts. How does that sound.""Vandaliz has a library," Fell said, "and so has Springfield and Edwardsville. why not Everton.
— Harold Sinclair, American Years
People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them.
— Justine Picardie, Daphne
But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.
— B.J. Novak
The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?
— Lia Mills, Fallen
Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd mounded in crooksLibraries beckonAnd bookstores inviteBut book-filled rooms welcomeUs back home at night!
— L.R. Knost
We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.
— Neil Gaiman
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.
— Natalie S. Bober, Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost
I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.
— Chloe Neill, Drink Deep
Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.”“You might be surprised.”“What do you mean?”“You know how people say a book is really gripping?”“Don’t tell me…” Cat trailed off.“Libraries can be dangerous.
— Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
— Rawi Hage, Carnival
She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they?
— Anne Bishop
She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the letters danced like insects and she was groggy next day at work. But still she'd sneak away for lunchtime trysts, her eager fingers fumbling for the bookmark.
— Cath Staincliffe
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. There was sanctuary in a library, there is sanctuary now, from the war, from the storms of our family and our own anxious minds. Libraries are like the mountain, or the meadows behind the goat lady’s house: sacred s
— Anne Lamott
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr
It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion, crazed reporters. Really, they needed to consider expanding the curriculum.
— Jenn McKinlay, Books Can Be Deceiving
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
— Jerzy Kosiński
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives 
— Mark Twain
I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them...I had to be able to take books from their places, run my finger over their backs, see how they opened, flick their corners straight. I wanted a perspective of bookshelves always in my eye. And books, books, books. This was not a rational way of determining on a career and was much tainted by mushiness. But it was the way in which my decision hardened, before I was fifteen years old, to become a librarian.
— Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford
The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!
— Karl Kesel
When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.
— Miv Schaaf
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
— Jim C. Hines, Libriomancer
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.
— Caitlin Moran, Moranthology
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba
— Neil Gaiman
The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition.
— Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.
— Nicole Peeler, Tempest’s Fury
Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.
— Stephen Greenblatt
She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.
— Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
— Larry Brown, Dirty Work
It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didn’t have automated stacks or self-service machines like the Management and Sciences library the other side of campus and the carpets and bookcases looked like they were probably the Victorian originals. But on days like this one, where the springtime sunshine streamed in through the high windows and set the dust motes dancing, Harriet sincerely felt that those BSc lot could stuff their vending machines and state of the art study pods. The Old Library was clearly suited for those who had poetry in their souls, rather than numbers in their heads.
— Erin Lawless, Little White Lies
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
— Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.
— Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62
— Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones
Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her.
— Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Believe it or not working in libraries is very similar to working on an ambulance or a fire truck. You take care of a lot of homeless people, you sometimes have to clean up things that require latex gloves, you always wear comfortable shoes, and you put out a lot of “fires”!
— Lori Reed
Massive changes may have occurred in libraries in recent years, with new digital resources and services supplementing the old traditional resources and services, the dog-eared card catalogues ripped up and destroyed, workstations suddenly everywhere, but one essential aspect of “libraryness” has not changed: libraries remain places dedicated to storage. Books continue to be published in greater and greater numbers – so great in fact that there are no accurate figures as to exactly how many are published: some say one every thirty seconds, others four thousand per day, others a million per year – and somehow, whether through the off-site storage of the physical books themselves, or microfilm copying, or digital scanning, we remain obliged to keep up with or afloat in this vast deluge of paper. Even the new, high-tech rebranded libraries opened to great fanfare in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the 1990s could not get away from this essential fact of paper hoarding: they were called “Idea Stores.” - p.56
— Ian Sansom, Paper: An Elegy
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.
— Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you
— Kyra Davis, Sex, Murder And A Double Latte
Sometimes, The Things We Can't Change End Up Changing Us.
— Bunny Naidu
Be so busy loving your life and your loved ones so that you have no time for the naysayers, doubters, haters, or regrets. You will be joined on this mission by other AAOC's some known to you and some yet to reveal themselves to you as you progress on this journey known as life. The reward will be a legacy of meaningful lessons learned and experiences shared with family and friends which will make it clear that you have truly lived not simply existed. Like most challenges that seem incredibly hard, this is no different. However, what awaits you at the finish line is what you have made of it. Agent 025 The Oracle
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
The universe rewards action.
— Sheridan Jobbins, Wish You Were Here
When the reward is not worth it, when you have to force yourself to do it, when you start changing because of it, and when you just simply loathe it, that is when you should realize that there is nothing for you in it.
— Charbel Tadros
I don't think it is ever too late to seek forgiveness and rewrite your future.
— Carla Reighard, Settlers
Don't ignore your discomforts about a place or person. They are normally vital signs for you to change.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
People don’t like surprises,” Caine shot back.“People love surprises Caine; it's change, they hate. Everything that is living is always changing. If it’s not changing, it’s dying.
— RJ Blizzard
The difference between living your life and simply existing is having the ability to think for yourself, then accepting that you are where you are because of the decisions you’ve made.
— Denis Hachey, Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
Real change isn't achieved as the result of white knuckling and hoping for the best. It requires changing your heart.
— Eddie Capparucci, Removing Your Shame Label: Learning to Break From Shame and Feel God's Love
Nothing in your world is going to change unless you change. Because even if something changes you won't recognize it. You will still perceive it with an unchanged and out-dated vision.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
A person whom is unhappy with life realizes that their construction of a self-image is incompatible with their earthly reality. An unhappy person must alter their internal or external world; otherwise, their sadness, sorrow, grief, and misery will remain unabated. Misery and desperation can lead to change, but only if a person is willing to learn, explore, and try.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Be the difference that makes the difference!
— Joy Maitland
Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
When it comes to changing your life; there’s only one thing you’ve to change, that is everything.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible