But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.

So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.