Hannah Schofield

“one can’t be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Humans love to make things complicated. Look at belief. They build whole morality and judgment systems on it—who believes what, believes in the right way, believes strongly enough. It’s so unnecessary. Belief, when you get right down to it, is just a powerful story. Tell a story well, and the reader doesn’t just want it to be true—they know it is. Get enough souls to believe in a story, and you can change the world. Or make one.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“It’s not a matter of letting anything stand. It’s a matter of accepting that the world isn’t the same as you thought it was before.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Listen. That's the part of the librarian's job that everyone forgets. Listen. Listen to your books, listen to your patrons. Listen to your enemies, even; when they're maddest is when you know you're doing something right. A librarian's job is to listen. A library's job is to be a place where the hopeless can feel seen and heard too.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words