Quotes About Community

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

We can be lonely together

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there's always a geek.

Shane was sitting on the curb next to the old, cracked gas pumps, eating a candy bar. Claire plopped down next to him. "Half?" she asked. "And now I know you're my girlfriend, since you're not afraid to demand community property," he said, and pulled off the uneaten half to hand it over.

Some people come to Morganville and collapse," Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just—bloom. You're one of those." Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos.

Books had become a symbol of trust and libraries places of peace and stability. In all the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk.

But he was starting to realize that maybe he didn't really have a home, except with the people he loved.

People put together big movements on the internet. They help each other. Strangers help strangers. It isn't all bad.

Library rules the world, son. Best to have a seat at the table

We don't care about everyone… It isn't in our natures. We can only care about those we know, or those we are connected with.

the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

The Eskimos began to make troublesome raids...

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Nick says. Maybe, Nick says, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

One part of Judaism called tikkum olam. It says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job – everyone's job – is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again ... Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.

Maybe if it were up to me I wouldn't have the whole world collectively believe in Santa Claus, but I would definitely have them collectively believe in something , because there is a messed-up kind of beauty in the way we can all bend over backward to make life seem magical when we want to.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around"? From Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road

Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.