"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better."
Barack Obama (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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5 months ago
"We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today."
Cory Doctorow (via slekes)
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1 year ago
"What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?"
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (via bookoasis)
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1 year ago
"Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"
David Baldacci, The Camel Club (via bookoasis)
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1 year ago
"I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves."
George Plimpton (via whisperingwillow)
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1 year ago
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky (via prettybooks)
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1 year ago
bibliotheca obscura
