Alaina Brown > Alaina's Quotes

“She was used to being told not to ask questions. Adults didn’t like it. But she had always thought that they knew the answers and that they simply found it too irritating to supply them to a child on demand”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“Hurts don't stop, but they fade into shadows of what they were. That's sad. That something so vital, something that bit you so deep, can be eroded by time into a story that almost seems like it happened to someone else. Any hurt.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“That was stupid.” The anger in his voice didn’t surprise her. She often heard the same tone when she solved a problem that was vexing the men at the settlement. Perhaps once they’d invested so much time hunting an answer they were aggrieved not to be the one to find it.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“We humans are herd animals. When several gather to browse in one spot, more will come. Few places offer more eloquent testimony to this fact than does a library, wherein our focus ensures some few books scarcely touch the shelves from the moment of their binding until the day they fall apart from overuse. Whilst all around, in sullen silence, the unloved show their spines in endless rows, aching for the touch that never comes. The Art of the Index, by Dr. H. Worblehood”
― Mark Lawrence

“Also, librarians aren’t that good at math.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Be glad you have a voice but no eyes. Since 1953, the talking walls are bigger and louder than ever. The modern-day “firefighters” are armed not with kerosene but snarky Internet memes, reality TV, and the ability to simultaneously see more and less of the world around them. I shouldn’t even tell you, but there are people who don’t believe libraries are necessary anymore. A bunch of Captain Beattys. It’s frightening.”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Let's go people! Get your smut and keep moving!”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto