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cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

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“‘Narin is the beat of my heart, the light of my eyes. God knows what she means to me.’”

— Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“Imaginative restitution can powerfully evoke even worlds that are totally lost.”

— Paul Griffiths, A Concise History of Western Music

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“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”

— Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

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“It seemed only natural that he should move into the airlock and open the hatch and step out alone, into the sunlight of stars he’d never noticed while on Earth, and fill his lungs with the exhalation of unknown plants and fall to his knees weeping with the joy of it when, after a long courtship, he felt the void fill and believed with all his heart that his love affair with God had been consummated.”

— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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“I spent so much time accustoming myself to one kind of surprise — the kind hinging on disappointments, hurts, small abandonments, and emotional bartering — that I’d stopped considering there might be another.”

— Emily Henry, Funny Story

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Reading the book is not enough. I need to eat it.

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“He thought sometimes of the peculiar peacefulness he’d experienced toward the end of the voyage back, watching blood seep from his hands and thinking, This will kill me, and then I can stop trying to understand. He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.”

— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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“Grief is messy and complex; it is love with nowhere to go.”

— Jen Storm, Little Moons

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“The two boys stared at each other, and in that moment, a remarkable thing happened. Both boys became fully aware of the plight of the other. A knowledge, a wisdom, passed between them…that they were boys among men, with remarkable minds trapped inside bodies that would not allow one-thousandth of any of the thoughts and feelings they possessed to emerge.”

— James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

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“‘This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.’”

— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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“‘Your parents made their decisions, and I’m not saying their situation was easy, or that they didn’t do the best they could. But it wasn’t enough. If you could even think that, if you could ever even fucking wonder if they regretted you, then they didn’t do enough.’”

— Emily Henry, Happy Place

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“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same… / Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”

— Rudyard Kipling, “If—”

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“A whirlwind doesn’t last all morning; a rain shower doesn’t last all night… / If heaven and earth can’t make something furious endure, how could man?”

— Lao Tzu, Brian Browne Walker translation, Tao Te Ching verse 23

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“Something is there, hidden in the deep! / But I do not know whose child it is— / It came even before God.”

— Lao Tzu, Brian Browne Walker translation, Tao Te Ching verse 4