Ama > Ama's Quotes

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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