Dear Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

“I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is; in every religion and every art form and don’t tell me you haven’t got time! There’s plenty of time. You need all of these cross-references. You never know when your head is going to use this fuel, this food for its purposes. —Ray Bradbury”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Maybe it would be easier if we were allowed to yell? The public librarian has been typecast. We're supposed to whisper and shush, demand silence, when in reality we work our asses off trying to help people speak up. Maybe it seems safer for us to whisper. Because maybe if we could shout, it would shake the walls down.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Even though she could never be an actual librarian because her love for books is only matched by her disdain for the general public.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me, and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“If you're reading this, chances are you've experienced bouts of antisocial behavior and "read rage" outbursts toward friends and family. Because, although you participate in society as much as necessary to convince your mom and the shrink your mom hired that you're not a shut-in, truth is, you'd rather be reading than doing just about anything. Did you think it was just you? It's not. You've just never met any of the others because we don't want to talk to you either.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Also, librarians aren’t that good at math.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“There is no other place where you can go and basically say, "I need help with this area of my life" and someone will respond, "All right, let's figure this out".”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Hate me cause you ain’t me.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Be glad you have a voice but no eyes. Since 1953, the talking walls are bigger and louder than ever. The modern-day “firefighters” are armed not with kerosene but snarky Internet memes, reality TV, and the ability to simultaneously see more and less of the world around them. I shouldn’t even tell you, but there are people who don’t believe libraries are necessary anymore. A bunch of Captain Beattys. It’s frightening.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Let's go people! Get your smut and keep moving!”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“I don’t know who was working here in 1992 that looked in Publishers Weekly magazine and thought, “Oh cool, a book for people to hold in one hand while they squeeze their lubed-up balls with the other. We’ll take it!” Library budgets were bigger in those days. Perhaps they could afford to replace books that were basically tea-bagged.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Dear Fahrenheit 451, Don’t ever change. And stay here with us, always. You were created in a library, and I’m comforted by the fact that you’ll remain on library shelves around the world. If we ever get to a point when you’re not included in the core of a book collection, we’re all fucked. Like “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge” type fucked. Some days the world feels closer to that point than I’m comfortable with.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“And like all relationships that last longer than they should, I let my anger boil over. I still couldn’t connect with your main character, and, on top of that, I was pissed about the other books I could have been reading. I had the urge to douse you with water and see if you evaporated before me like the old witch. So this is it. I’m putting you in a Little Free Library.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“once a book is written, it’s in the hands and minds and hearts of the reader.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks