“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”

“On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library. It'd take a week to go into the whole thing, all the details. So I'll just give the main point. On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library.”

“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.”

“I'll be true, I'll be useful…
I'll be cavalier…I'll be yours my dear.
and I'll belong to you…
if you'll just let me through.
this is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
and this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?”

“When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm — spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.”

“Mikhail?… Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.
-You will not find it.
-Why am I not surprised?”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

“Everything that happens is supposed to be
And it's all pre-determined,
can't change your destiny
Guess I'll just keep moving,
someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going”

“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”