Marie

“I don’t know the title, but the cover is blue.” “What’s it about? Do you know?” “Dystopian, I’m pretty sure. And it’s long, about nine hundred pages.” I show her The Passage by Justin Cronin. “Yes!” the woman practically screams. “I can’t believe you found it!” There is no higher high than winning the “cover is blue” contest.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“But librarians are not here to parent your children. If you can’t parent your children, that’s on you. And every family’s value system differs.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“I’m raising this child,” she tells them, “and if I have a problem with something she brings home from the library, she’ll hear about it from me. You won’t. So you let her have anything she wants.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“sobering statistics compiled by Literacy Inc., that 33 percent of high school graduates never pick up another book, and that 42 percent of college grads don’t either. Oh yeah, and apparently 80 percent of American families did not purchase a book this year.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading