Quotes from book

Among Others

“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”

“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”

“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”

“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”

“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”