Sean

“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
― Garrison Keillor, Dusty and Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys

“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.”
― S.R. Ranganathan