Sonia Williams

“because like all librarians, his sense of humour is different to that of lesser mortals.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Good, the Bad and the History

“It wasn’t that he wasn’t good at delegating. He was extremely good at delegating. But the talent requires people on the other end of the chain to be good at being delegated on to. They weren’t.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“[I have to do some research.] “Fine, but can ye no just use the Internet?” Buck asked. [What do you know about that?] “I’ve . . . heard of it.” [I can use it for lots of things, sure. But there are people who can find what you need faster than an old man pecking around a search engine.] “Yeah? Who?” [Librarians.] “Ohhh, aye. I’ve heard o’ them too. They always know where the secret room is with the treasure in it. They like tae go plumbing in there, if ye know what I mean.” [I don’t know what stories you’ve been hearing in Tír na nÓg, but that’s not what a librarian does. And neither do plumbers.]”
― Kevin Hearne, Ink & Sigil

“People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as ‘Is this the laundry?’ ‘How do you spell surreptitious?’ and, on a regular basis: ‘Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal