The Benevolent Librarian

“Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“In the scullery she says, if the end of the world is upon them, they might as well finish all the wine.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“A library, no mater how humble or grand, is a series of sacred gateways. You pass through them and leave your own city behind; you journey through time and space; and for a little while, you escape the confines of your own circumstances. Each of us who are readers gets to live through a multiplicity of eras; we get to tiptoe through, to borrow Jorge Luis Borge’s phrase, ‘a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent, and parallel times.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Ninth-grade U.S. history: Not to hurt feelings but that chapter you assigned? That was all “Columbus is great,” “The Indians sure loved Thanksgiving,” “Let’s brainwash everyone.” I found way better stuff at the library,”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land