That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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Aphra Behn
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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John Lubbock
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening.. .. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
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Kathleen Norris
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
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Eleanor Brown
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
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Jan Louch
More Quotes By Scott Hawkins
Carolyn — I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”“ An innocent heart? In America?” She hesitated.
Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.
As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy...
