Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we rea...

The Polysyllabic Spree

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of...

Lauren DeStefano

The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book with this message stamped inside, we know you're not the one responsible ...

Don Borchert

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to ...

Journal of a Disappointed Man

It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the end of 10th century, while the royal library of Caliph al-‘Aziz, in the year 988, of the Fatimids in Cairo perhaps had more th...

Islamic Librarianship and Malaysian Islamic Libraries

Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are ...

Zombies Vs. Unicorns

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened wi...

The Library Book

In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw th...

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

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 voice...

Neil Gaiman

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Dirty Work

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

The End of Forever

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

The Great Gatsby

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Blue Dahlia

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

The Sound of Letting Go

I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Okay for Now

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

The Words

I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.

Mark Bridges

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

Cruel Beauty