Cathy

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Cathy’s Quotes

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
― Robert Littell

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“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
― Sarah Beth Durst

tags: books, children-s-books, librarian, library

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“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
― Monty Python

tags: libraries

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Ask Barbara Delinsky! — 57 members — last activity Jul 29, 2011 09:07PM
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