Victoria

“Enter the players. There were seven of us, seven bright young things with wide precious futures ahead of us, though we saw no farther than the books in front of our faces. We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum. The castle library was an airy octagonal room, walled with bookshelves, crowed with sumptuous old furniture, and kept drowsily warm by a monumental fireplace that burned almost constantly, regardless of the temperature outside. The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.”
― M.L. Rio

“Besides, the library’s the world’s best-kept secret,” he said, surprising me, because he never for one second struck me as a bookworm. “It’s the only place where anything’s possible and everyone will leave you alone.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Books do not find value when they are written. They find value when they are read. Every book here is both worthless and priceless at the same time. It depends on who you ask.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Winter is a time for libraries, the muffled quiet of bookstacks and the scent of pages and dust.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times