Katie Graham

“I belong in a library. I’ve always belonged at the library.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“In the United States, fascism is on the rise. Libraries are under attack. Some pundits ask why universities bother with departments that don’t just teach students to write computer code. Violent bigotry is fashionable again, and for many people, the appeal of politics is the opportunity to impose cruelty on others. The admonition to remember has never seemed so important.”
― Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

“Alakazam BIOS discography Philadelphia a la disco," I said, stomping right in front of the invaders, hands on my hips. "Nitrogen! I.E. polyester Garfunkle'n Garfield!”
― Brandon Sanderson

“The Jewish poet Heinrich Heine was right to say, “Those who burn books will, in the end, burn people.” In 1933, Hitler gave the order to burn books. In 1941, he gave the order to burn people.”
― Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II