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Library Quotes - The library is like a candy store where everything is free

  Library Quotes - The library is like a candy store where everything is free   “I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl   “She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.” ― Sarah Beth Durst   “The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.” ― David Eddings, King of the Murgos   “Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. ...

Library Quotes - Your library is your paradise

  Library Quotes - Your library is your paradise   “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.” ― Anatole France   “Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest   “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life   “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” ― Harold Howe   “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit   “Your library is your paradise.” ― Desiderius Erasmus   “I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a bo...

Library Quotes - My library is an archive of longings

  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...