12 Beautiful Quotes About Why We Love Libraries February 27, 2019 Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. Robin Sloan I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Ta-Nehisi Coates A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Henry Ward Beecher Libraries raised me. Ray Bradbury When I got my library card, that was when my life began. Rita Mae Brown The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. Rita Dove My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. E.B. White Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus