Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.