“Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?”

“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author

“It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a cup of coffee.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.”

Poul Anderson book The Enemy Stars

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

“I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.
I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;
You do not guess the adventure I have had!...
Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,
Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet...
My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.
We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet