Ann Witherspoon

“I give you slavery, Japanese internment, colonization, and chemical castration. All, at some point, legal and accepted—and how? Because a lot of men claimed the right to sit around a table and bring exceptionally evil things into practice, while pretending to be polite, civilized, and moral human beings.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“A library is a sanctuary. It's one of the only places left where you can walk through the doors and draw breath and stay, without needing to buy something, without having to justify your presence.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“What a miraculous thing a book was, when you stopped to think about it: whole worlds springing to life from nothing more than squiggles on a page.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Libraries are full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library