“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort. Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.”

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“I'm not an angel, Jace," she repeated. "I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am.”

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”

“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.”

“I wouldn't be the person I am today if it weren't for his daily encouragement.”

“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”