The Royal Librarian Quotes

“In the morning, she resolved to be sensible, keep her head below the radar and stop worrying about things beyond her control.”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“Act the part and it’ll become second nature”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“It was such a relief to have found a way to talk, to hear her words spilling into the damp air and evaporating,”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“Perhaps if she spoke those words often enough, she would come to believe them.”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“Most walls of the family's apartment were lined with bookshelves, and more volumes were stacked in boxes under every bed and table. Her mother often threatened to throw them out with the rubbish, and any new titles had to be added to the collection secretly when she was at work.”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of nothing more magical than spending her days surrounded by stories.”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

“The room smelt exactly as a library should: of old paper, leather and sweet, sticky glue, overlaid with furniture polish and the smoke from a thousand dead fires.”
― Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian