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Marie called it “my beautiful radium”2—and it truly was. Deep in the dark pocket of the scientist, the radium broke the gloom with an unending, eerie glow. “These gleamings,” Marie wrote of its luminous effect, “seemed suspended in the
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“It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries -- and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up--not just stopped but saved.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen...”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper and ink and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
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