“What is the worst that could happen? she'd asked herself. You could die, the fear whispered back. What is the best? You could live.” FearLiving Book:The Librarian of Burned Books Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“We humans love telling each other stories. . . we've done just that in caves, and in amphitheaters, and in the Globe, and in kitchens around campfires, and in the trenches. Every culture, every country, every type pf person in the world tell stories. They've been whispered and sung and written down on scraps of paper and they always, always been an indelible part of our very humanity.” StoriesHumanityBooksStorytelling Book:The Librarian of Burned Books Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?” BooksCensorshipLibrarians Book:The Librarian of Burned Books Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“p. 363 "We cannot stop individuals who read for the sole purpose of confirming their already closely held beliefs... But we can stop the dictators, the tyrants, the bullies who try to impose that method onto others.” ReadingBooksCensorship Book:The Librarian of Burned Books Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“p. 362 "There are nights I lie awake wondering what the moment was we lost the Germany I knew. Some might point to the invasion of Poland ... There are a million such moments. Kristallnacht, the Night of the long Knives, the Jewish boycotts, the race laws ... But sometimes I think it was the moment right before the gasoline was poured on the books. The moment the most educated country in the world willingly, joyously, wholeheartedly turned away from knowledge.” KnowledgeBooksLibrarians Quote Author:Brianna Labuskes