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“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.”
― Jay Parini

“I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!”
― Lynn Flewelling

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.”
― Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
― Gail Carriger

“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I daresay I wasn’t like other girls harder than anyone else ever was. I was so unlike other girls that I wasn’t even like myself, except on Sundays.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer