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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

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

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
― John Green

“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
― Linton Weeks

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
― Joan Bauer

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables