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Sunday, November 3, 2024

A library is where adventures live.

- November 03, 2024

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A conversation between readers

"I always want to cry whenever I finish a book. There's a great sense of adventure and accomplishment with every satisfying ending, but then again, it's just yet another adventure over with. And though one may reread, nothing will ever feel like the naive wandering of unsure steps one takes when roaming through the pages for the very first time." - my friend Maggie Vo

"You have described it perfectly. The only thing I would add is that the sadness that comes from finishing one adventure is dulled with the knowledge that another will soon begin. For us readers, new friends and new journeys are ever upon the horizon, with the comfort of old lands and allies always behind and willing to be reunited and re-explored. We forever wander, but are never lost." - my response to Maggie

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"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison

"There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book." - Sir Philip Pullman

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more." - Patricia A. McKillip

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within." - Ursula K. Le Guin

"A piece of writing is a trap, and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive — which is knowledge — alive forever. The more books you have the more traps, then the better chance of capturing some particular, elusive, shining beast — one that might otherwise die unseen." - Doctor Morgenes

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." - Louisa May Alcott

"It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books." - Jo Walton

"It's a great feeling when your favorite books touch places that you know, but we need to think about what these and other stories are teaching us with their silence. The stories we tell, fictional and non-fictional, curate the ways we imagine. Since history is at its heart story-telling, the limits of our imagination become the limits of our historical curiosity and compassion." - my friend Sophie Croll

"Never underestimate the power of a tale. What you put aside as fantasy in one land can kill you in the next." - Patricia A. McKillip

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C.S. Lewis

"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came." - Brother William of Baskerville

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story." - Ursula K. Le Guin

“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” - Sherlock Holmes

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