Library
Quotes - My library is an archive of longings
“I
have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
“I
declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires
of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be
miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“My
library is an archive of longings.”
―
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks,
1964-1980
“Have
you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska
laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read
them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve
gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I
always have something to read.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Don't
ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out
from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't
apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from
bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that
people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the
book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people.
The most important thing is that people read...”
―
Neil Gaiman
“Any
book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his
deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Doctor
Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the
world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from
Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
―
Russell T. Davies
“Harry
— I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”
And
she sprinted away, up the stairs.
“What
does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to
tell where the voice had come from.
“Loads
more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.
“But
why’s she got to go to the library?”
“Because
that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the
library.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“A
library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,
particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been
flooded.”
―
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Second
hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks
of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the
library lack.”
―
Virginia Woolf
“The
very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope
for the future of man”
―
T.S. Eliot
“That
perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a
faithful friend and a good library.”
―
Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
“The
only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
―
Albert Einstein
“It
was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
―
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
“My
grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any
excuse to be stupid.”
―
Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road
“I
couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my
furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so
books I possess.”
―
H. P. Lovecraft
“Because
I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library
overnight.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
“The
classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open,
unending, free.”
―
Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The
sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
―
Lemony Snicket
“Imagine
the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally,
all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the
Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the
most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the
guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs
on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally
resent it bitterly.”
―
Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind
“When
I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out
between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages
have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through
a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
