Elsewhere

by Dean Koontz

For one like him, who knows not just a single history but many, libraries are not infrequently places of death.

Libraries are not safe places, for their shelves are filled with books, but also with ideas regarding freedom, justice, truth, faith, and much more, ideas that some find intolerable.

she had learned among other things that it was all right to be afraid as long as you didn’t allow your fear to paralyze or in any significant way dispirit you.