Quotes About Community

You just need to find your people

found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And

This is the thing about growing up in a small town. Every part of your life is up for grabs. Nothing is secret.

across from Legal, hadn't been invited to a dinner. Scott Mackey, the

I supposed I would probably marry Patrick, knock out a few kids, live a few streets away from where I had always lived. Apart from an exotic taste in clothes, and the fact that I'm a bit short, there's not a lot separating me from anyone you might pass in the street. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace. The

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

Todo el mundo debería tener acceso a una biblioteca.

Una biblioteca es un lugar sagrado. Un templo del aprendizaje.

You know, you don't dress like someone from round here. I quite look forward to seeing what insane combination you're going to turn up in next.

Pastor, you know you're talking to a room full of happily unmarried women here, right?

I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

I simply got used to seeing people I didn't recognize wandering around.

My friends. A motley group, but then most friends are. •

Sophia took a seat at the back with the other coloured folk. Alice nodded at her. It felt wrong that she wasn't sitting with them, another example of a world out of kilter.

Alice sat on the swing seat, listening to the crickets and wondering how she could be in a house full of people and also in the loneliest place on earth.

You gotta have places where people can meet and talk and exchange ideas and it not just be about money, you know? Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. But you can't buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

Because we are a team. And a team sticks together." Izzy lifted her chin. "We are the Baileyville packhorse librarians and we stick together." Beth punched her lightly on the arm as her horse moved forward. "Well, goddamn to that.

Zinu, ka neviens nevar dab?t visu, un m?s, imigranti, to zin?m lab?k par citiem. Kad cilv?ks pamet savu zemi, vi?š st?v ar katru k?ju cit? viet?. Sirds saš?e?as uz pus?m, un viena pus?te allaž tiecas p?c otras. T? ir cena, kas mums j?maks? par to, kas esam.

A library service should be provided for all people, rural as well as urban, colored as well as white.

Since when did the whole of London begin getting up so early? Everyone has had the same idea.

Everyone I knew hated Monday mornings, but I never minded them. I liked arriving early at The Buttered Bun, firing up the huge tea urn in the corner, bringing in the crates of milk and bread from the backyard and chatting to Frank as we prepared to open.

Margery experienced a brief moment of pure love for the people she had grown uo alongside, those who would not see a man-- or a mule-- struggle alone

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people.