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“Life was much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying,’ Irene muttered. ‘It’s called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.”

Life Growing Up Worrying

Book:The Secret Chapter

Source: The Secret Chapter

“Stories matter – telling them, sharing them, preserving them, changing them, learning from them, and escaping with and through them. We learn about ourselves and the world that we live in through fiction just as much as through facts. Empathy, perception and understanding are never wasted. All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past – and the future.”

Life Stories Learning

Book:The Secret Chapter

Source: The Secret Chapter

“But that was one of the perks of being higher-ranking; you could tell your juniors to cut back on the courtesy, while simultaneously being offended if you felt they were being too rude. A win-win situation, for the people on top.”

Humor Leadership Management Manners Hierarchy

Book:The Lost Plot

Source: The Lost Plot

“We have to report this." Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves." "Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.”

Books Mysteries Investigations

Book:The Invisible Library

Source: The Invisible Library

“Mother, please, hear me out. If there’s something I’ve learned over the last few years, it’s that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.”

Life Choices Profession

Book:The Secret Chapter

Source: The Secret Chapter

“We have to report this." Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves.”

Investigations

Book:The Invisible Library

Source: The Invisible Library

“Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient bookcase.”

Reading Bookshelves Queendom

Book:The Lost Plot

Source: The Lost Plot

“...sometimes circumstances called for unwanted solutions”

Life Life Quotes Circumstances Solutions Solutions To Your Problems Circumstances In Life

Author:Genevieve Cogman

“How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.”

Thinking Teaching Students Humour Socratic Reasoning

Book:The Invisible Library

Source: The Invisible Library

“The perfect Librarian is calm, cool, collected, intelligent, multilingual, a crack shot, a martial artist, an Olympic-level runner (at both the sprint and marathon), a good swimmer, an expert thief, and a genius con artist. They can steal a dozen books from a top-security strongbox in the morning, discuss literature all afternoon, have dinner with the cream of society in the evening, and then stay up until midnight dancing, before stealing some more interesting tomes at three a.m. That's what a perfect Librarian would do. In practice, most Librarians would rather spend their time reading a good book.”

Librarians Librarianship

Book:The Masked City

Source: The Masked City

“I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.”

Learning Mistakes

Book:The Burning Page

Source: The Burning Page

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