“It seemed like a concrete tree with branches of polished corridors in every direction.”
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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“The transfer of an idea? And, of course, a story is not a single idea; it is thousands of ideas, all working together in concert.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
“The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don’t charge any money for that warm embrace.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“His reluctance to accept women students stemmed from his constant worry with a Russian student lest her rather exotic hairstyle result in its catching fir on the Bunsen burner.”
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