#libra

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. ↗

— Carl Stokes

#been #centers #children #city #city hall

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick. ↗

— James Turner

#science

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. ↗

— John Green

#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#library #university #universe

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #travel #library

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #magnus-bane-tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #library

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#book-lover #books #library

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. ↗

— Brian Selznick

#library

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#education #get #go #laid #library