Among Others
Jo Walton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”
“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”
“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”
“The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.”
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