You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.

The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.