The Underground Library Quotes

“A book isn't just a physical object. Once you've read it, it becomes a thought, a story, a memory that is alive inside you forever.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“The whole of Opera Square was a colossal fire, larger than any I’d ever seen. Young men were shouting and chanting, throwing books into the flames. It was terrifying, monstrous, these people thinking they could obliterate history and culture and reinvent it the way it suited them. My father wanted us to see it so that we could understand what was coming.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“It will surprise you what people can do, especially if we go to war. Everyone will be looking the other way. No one will see what is happening under their very noses because they will not want to.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“The Nazis have this organization called the Chamber of Culture, who are there to make sure everything published and broadcast backs Hitler and his ideologies. A list of ‘acceptable authors’ came out,”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“No one will see what is happening under their very noses because they will not want to.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“Where you burn books, you ultimately burn people.’ ”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“Sometimes all you need is the right people in your life.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library

“You can’t stop living life just in case you get hurt.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Underground Library