A Place to Hang the Moon
Kate Albus
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The first words of a new book are so delicious—like the first taste of a cookie fresh from the oven and not yet properly cooled.”
“Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader.” She paused. “Evidence as to her character.”
“The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there.” “Why do grown-ups write so many of them?” William asked. “I hadn’t really thought about it,” Mrs. Müller confessed. “Perhaps they think children fancy the notion of living on their own, without adults to tell them what to do. It’s quite daft, if you think about it, isn’t it?”
“It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading.”
“A librarian seemed a good sort of friend to have.”
“Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library.”
“This sort of love, the children knew only from one another- and from books.”
“The librarian took this all in, standing by the fire and observing the children for a while, letting the silence be. Somehow, it didn’t feel awkward, the way silences often do. Perhaps librarians are more used to quiet than most.”
“The very idea. To pick just one favorite book seemed impossible as - well, as finding a family through a mass wartime evacuation. But there you have it.”
“Their pages spoke of the past, a reminder that the battered old world had whirred for a very long time indeed, and that even his latest buffeting would likely be withstood.”
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books, difficulty-focusing, librarians, readers, comfortable-silence, libraries-books-lovers, non-readers, orphans-in-literature, reading, anxiety
