Quotes from Chris Grabenstein

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.

I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

An open book is an open mind -Charles Chiltington

Knowledge not shared remains unknown

Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.

every woman's mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.

KNOWLEDGE NOT SHARED REMAINS UNKNOWN. —LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO

Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful - a word I recently invented - a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow! -Mr. Lemoncello

And for the first time in his life, Kyle Keeley wanted to check out a library book more than anything in the world.

Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people's ideas.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'—Groucho Marx." Bells

Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, 'it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible -Dr. Zinchencko

Mr. Lemoncello bounced across the stage like a happy grasshopper.

Curses and foul language!

Open a Book and Open Your Mind.

But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves. - Mr. Lemoncello

And maybe," said Marjory, "we can find a few 641.8653 to go with it." "Ooh," said Andrew. "I love doughnuts.

The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.

Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. The holographic image of Mrs. Tobin was there, smiling patiently, as Peckleman pulled some kind of magazine out of the box. Miguel was also near