Kate Thompson > Quotes

“Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot water.”
― Kate Thompson, The Stepney Doorstep Society

“If you have a book, you have a friend. As an only child, reading gave me a friend ALL the time.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“Who are we to say what people ought or ought not to read?” she persisted.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“there’s no such thing as just a librarian.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people,” murmured Mr. Pepper. “It was Heinrich Heine, a poet, who said that many years ago.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“You die twice. Once when your heart stops beating and again when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“It starts with paperclips and leads to anarchy.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

“it was then she realized, readers weren’t reading a book, they were inhabiting a whole new world.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Albert Einstein’s The Theory of Relativity was banned by the Nazis, who enlisted 100 authors and scientists to denounce him.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“rain had died off and the Milky Way stretched overhead like a chiffon scarf.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Albert Einstein’s The Theory of Relativity was banned by the Nazis,”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“BANNED BOOK It was poet Otto Heine who wrote in 1821, “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” In 1933, his books were burned on Nazi book-burning bonfires.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“When we ban books we are declaring certain people to be unacceptable. When we ban books we shut down conversations. When we ban books we let the bullies win. —Elana K. Arnold”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“It was better to die in pursuit of freedom than live a life of degrading subjugation.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“A refusal to believe her own hardship is more important than others,”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club