Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.