"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

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart (Book 1))

"I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.

--Stargirl

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— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)