Marie

“You were given your gift for the joy you may give in return.”
― Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire

“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

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
― Mahatma Gandhi