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Quotes About Library

and when the Tizerkane warriors rode out of the Great Library and out of Zosma, Strange the dreamer went with them.
~ Laini Taylor
The keepers of books had been the keepers of wisdom.
~ Laini Taylor
A biblioteca tem uma mente própria – o velho Mestre Hyrrokkin disse-lhe, levando-o de volta pelas escadas secretas. – Quando ela rouba um menino, nós permitimos que ela o guarde.
~ Laini Taylor
The library knows its own mind. When it steals a boy, we let it keep it.
~ Laini Taylor
What a place to be is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours ... were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.
~ lamb charles
It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?
~ Cassandra Clare
There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.
~ Cassandra Clare
Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.
~ Cassandra Clare
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them
~ Cassandra Clare
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace
~ Cassandra Clare
And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.
~ Cassandra Clare
My local library was whole shelves in the older children's section on vampires and demons — and not a single sensible psychic advice book.
~ Cassandra Eason
Goodreads is like the Harold Washington Library Center of the Internet. It's exceptional.
~ Cat Ellington
A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them. Three: Books Operate Under Unstable Physicks so Turn out the Lights when You Lock Up.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When spring comes, I shall meet you at the Municipal Library, and you will see how much I've learned! You'll be so proud of me and love me so!' 'Oh, Ell, but I do love you! Right now!' 'One can always bear more love,' the Wyverary purred.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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
John Waters. He said we need to make books cool again. So if you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck them.
~ Cathy Yardley
For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
~ Germaine Greer