"so many books so little time"
— Unknown

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
— Joan Bauer

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."
— Isabel Allende

"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
— John Witherspoon

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."
— Harold Bloom

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
— Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

""Books are the most tolerant of friends.""
— Richard Paul Evans

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
— Anne Herbert

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

"It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)

"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes"
— Daniel Pennac

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