Ivy

“It was strange to Alex that the smell of books was always the same. The ancient documents in the climate-controlled stacks and glass cases of Beinecke. The research rooms at Sterling. The changeable library of Lethe House. They all had the same scent as the fluorescent-lit reading rooms full of cheap paperbacks she’d lived in as a kid.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars