Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library Quotes

“A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Knowledge not shared remains unknown”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“An open book is an open mind" -Charles Chiltington”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“KNOWLEDGE NOT SHARED REMAINS UNKNOWN. —LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“every woman’s mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful - a word I recently invented - a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow!" -Mr. Lemoncello”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, ‘it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“ ‘Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.’—Groucho Marx.” Bells”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“And for the first time in his life, Kyle Keeley wanted to check out a library book more than anything in the world.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible" -Dr. Zinchencko”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Mr. Lemoncello bounced across the stage like a happy grasshopper.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. The holographic image of Mrs. Tobin was there, smiling patiently, as Peckleman pulled some kind of magazine out of the box. Miguel was also near”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“As Dr. Zinchenko informed you, I’d like to say a few brief words. Here they are: ‘short,’ ‘memorandum,’ and ‘underpants.’ And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’ Children?…”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.’—Groucho Marx.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Kyle still had a shot. A long shot, but, hey, sometimes the”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Yo, Kyle,” said Miguel. “Exactly how many board games have you played?” “Enough to know that you don’t ever quit until somebody else actually wins.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Ipso facto,”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“pirate hat”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“And there’s no place I’d rather be on my big day than inside a library, surrounded by books. Unless, of course, I could be on a bridge to Terabithia.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Hey, Kyle—when you’re playing a game like Sorry and you get bumped back three spaces, do you usually quit?” “No. If I get bumped, I play harder because I know I need to find a way to get back those three spaces and pull ahead of the pack.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“be in it to win it.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Kyle was busy helping Holmes figure out that the Red-Headed League was just a clever ploy pulled by some robbers to get a red-haired pawnbroker to leave his shop long enough for them to dig a tunnel from his basement to the bank next door when the librarian’s voice jolted him out of London and brought”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Using a library can make learning about anything (and everything) fun,” he wrote. “When you’re in a library, researching a topic, you’re on a scavenger hunt, looking for clues and prizes in books instead of your attic or backyard.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Weakies, Breakfast of Chumps.)”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library