A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.

In Bibliotheken fühlt man sich wie in Gegenwart eines großen Kapitals, das geräuschlos unberechenbare Zinsen spendet.

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.