The Astral Library Quotes

“Can a bookworm ever really call herself alone when she’s surrounded by books?”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“People who die with too many books on their To Be Read stack sometimes end up here. The ones who don’t feel they can pass over until they catch up on their reading.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“I give you slavery, Japanese internment, colonization, and chemical castration. All, at some point, legal and accepted—and how? Because a lot of men claimed the right to sit around a table and bring exceptionally evil things into practice, while pretending to be polite, civilized, and moral human beings.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“The smell of woodsmoke because you were reading in front of a cozily crackling fire; the smell of lavender laundry soap from the lambswool blanket tucked around your knees; the smell of a cat because in a perfect library you’d have a cat purring at your feet as you read the best book in the world in front of a crackling fire with tea and chocolate chip cookies on the arm of your perfect reading chair.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Libraries are sanctuaries for everyone, no matter how different.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“I work for Kate Quinn”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Art doesn’t exist to make you feel good,” the Gallerist said as though reading my mind. “Art exists to make you”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“I never look down my nose at anyone for what they read. As long as they're reading, at least they aren't watching reality television.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“For anything. For everything. Love”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Maybe you’ve never done poverty math. If so, lucky you. It’s the Olympic sport of the working poor, the mental gymnastics performed by a woman with $36.82 in her checking account and an empty fridge at home, desperately trying to calculate just what shopping-basket Jenga will stave off both bankruptcy and malnutrition in the ten days to go before payday.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“simulacra”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“You kiss like a dying flounder.”

“I did not see my size 22 fitting into that whale bone corset.”

“If you would not mind to control alt delete yourself.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“I think it scares people like that”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Because every tyrant of the world”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“I have a complete list of titles I would like to cross-check immediately with the Astral Library’s catalog,” a sheep-faced woman volunteered at once”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“The Library system was apparently under siege”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“What a miraculous thing a book was”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Your card has been declined,” she said frigidly. And that’s how it all started.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“What were you running from?” I asked diffidently. “I’m not saying you have to tell me”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“friends are just more people who let you down.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library