The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa’s fate...

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book — it opens tentatively — and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a...

Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet. They took snapshots of their servers and sent the data to a central...

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

… my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these...

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in...

every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a...

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and … would sit long hours in Bodley’s arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his...

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched...

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.’ She pointed to the shelf opposite. ‘Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a...

the librarian.” He was a fount of information, and he had a penchant for leaving books outside my door.

Mikhail?…Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you’re doing, and I’ll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I...

My wish is to create a huge library of books.

Let’s go downtown,” Dad said. “By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I’ve stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put...

The visitor enters and says, “What a lot of books! Have you read them all?” …The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: “And more, dear sir, many more,” which freezes the...

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the...

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I’m going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. ‘Cool flame tricks aside, there’s no competition.’He lifted his eyebrow. ‘Library wins?”Every single time.

Você constrói mil castelos, mil santuários, você não é nada; você constrói uma biblioteca, você é tudo

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

The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they’d...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Bibliothèque Nationale. Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen...

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

En África, cuando un anciano muere, una biblioteca arde, toda una biblioteca desaparece, sin necesidad de que las llamas acaben con el papel