Katie Graham

“Libraries level the playing field. They’re free and open to the public. All are welcome. Our doors are open. Come in and learn to become your best self. Follow your dreams and reach your true potential. Let your reach exceed your grasp. Whatever book you want to read, it’s free on the honor system. It’s hard to imagine anywhere else in our society so devoted to the concept of everyone being completely equal.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“That's the problem with people, though, isn't it? They always think that other people are the problem... If all you're trying to do is change who's in control, they you don't really want to change anything.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“They know the system is wrong, but they choose not to think or speak up or act because they ultimately hope that in their silence, they will gain. Or at the very least not have to give more than they have already given.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“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