The Librarian of the Haunted Library Quotes

“You don’t mess with someone’s dog. You just don’t.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Idecided to go to the town cemetery to think. Cemeteries had always been good places for me. They were quiet.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“People thought they were born in the light or in the dark. But everyone had some of both. The amounts were the difference. What you did with those amounts were the difference.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“I read this book by Kurt Vonnegut about half a dozen times called Slaughterhouse-Five. In the novel, when humans do terrible things, sad and evil and disappointing things, the narrator often says, ‘So it goes.’ There’s a deep sadness in the phrase and also a hopelessness.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“You mean you have a natural inclination,” I said. “Maybe I do too, but I choose not to give into it. A lot of evil is just selfishness.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“thousand directions.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It was like I was getting assignments from the universe. The voice wasn’t always just in dreams. Sometimes a crow would talk to me or a person who seemed in a trance. Once it was a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Some people might say they were from god but which one? There were thousands. I did think it was an older god, if it was a god. A new one would have texted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“He said, “Kevin Austin?” I told him the nuns in the orphanage gave me my birth city for a surname. He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too. I went to the shelter that night, but it was full.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“She raised her pinky. I’d never seen anyone raise their pinky before. Maybe I was in the presence of royalty. But why the pinky? Some rules of etiquette seemed pretty random to me.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“I had gone to sleep on a grassy patch and woke up in the morgue. Obviously, the city was sending me a message, and it wasn’t subtle. Leave. As an orphan, it wasn’t my first experience with being unwanted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“But quite a few rules were made by someone hoping to use the rule to benefit themselves, and even a good rule could sometimes be applied in a bad way. Rules should be viewed with suspicion first and acceptance second.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library