Julie

“For now she knew he had been right--the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.”
― Susan Kearsley

“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.”
― Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

“This is taken from his acceptance speech when he received the Newbery Medal.
"I don't know what I actually said tonight. I know what I want to say though.
Reading is important
Books are important
Libraries are important. (Also, Libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks). It is a glorious and unlikely thing to be cool to your children.
Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all/”
― Neil Gaiman

“From "The World's Strongest Librarian who quotes Tom Clancy: The only way to do all the things you'd like to is to read.”
― Josh Hanagarne