Anne Link

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
― John Berry