Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books

by Kirsten Miller

be a much better place if more folks stepped out of the boxes they’d come packed in and opened their minds to the mysteries of the universe.

And so I told him I wasn’t interested in following rules that make life harder for girls so it can be easier for boys.

When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others.

As far as he was concerned, if your faith was shaken by foul words or sex scenes, then you must not have had very much to begin with.

There is no need to make magic. There is magic all around us. We need only to recognize it and make use of what is already there.

The worst thing you could do as a parent, she thought, was to shield young women from the ugliness of the world—then blame them when they did not see it coming.

“You get to choose whose footsteps you’ll follow.

“But that’s not what’s important. What matters is never letting people tell you what to think.

Gather as much knowledge as you can, because information is power.

That’s why libraries exist—to make sure people always have access to the information they need.

Every day, we help people find answers to questions that they’re terrified to ask.”

The New Testament tells us we’re supposed to follow Christ, not the old ways.

You get to choose whose footsteps you’ll follow, Jeanette Newman had told the young Beverly. Find a set that went in the right direction.