Quote of the Day

"Reading...is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction."
- David L. Ulin

Quote of the Day

"Kids...They're always sticky like they've got jam on their hands. Even if there's no jam in the house, somehow, they've always got jam on their hands! I'm not the right guy to deal with that. I have no patience for jam hands!"
- Luke, Gilmore Girls 2.05

Quote of the Day

"I wish I was a small child so I could enjoy your library skills."
- Atticus

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"If you didn't make allowances in this family, you'd go nuts."

- Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night

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"As we fix our gaze on the Holy Family of Nazareth, as they were forced to become refugees, let us think of the tragedy of those migrants and refugees who are victims of rejection and exploitation."
- Pope Francis

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"I was so glad to see you climb right into the punch bowl last night."
- C.E.

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"It being Christmas Eve, there was, as I had foreseen, a good deal of revelry and what not."
- P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit

Quote of the Day

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Quote of the Day

"We can walk out after the dark
Because it's Christmas time!
Colored lights glow from the park
'Cause it's Christmas time!"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!"

Quote of the Day

"Knowing that Jesus still walks our streets, that he is part of the lives of his people, that he is involved with us in one vast history of salvation, fills us with hope. A hope which liberates us from the forces pushing us to isolation and lack of concern for the lives of others, for the life of our city."
- Pope Francis, Mass at Madison Square Garden, New York City

Quote of the Day

"The Venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date...is a circle."
- John Green

Quote of the Day

"Sleep peacefully, for your labors are done, your pains are turned into tales and songs."
- Carlos Bulosan

Quote of the Day

"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."
- Nora Ephron

Quote of the Day

"When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you."
- Patrick Stump

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"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
- Mma Ramotswe, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Quote of the Day

"She understood silence the way he understood darkness -- running from neither as the sun set and the words ran out."

- Marina Keegan, "Reading Aloud"

Quote of the Day

"Don't apologize for simply existing...because it is not wrong. If you want to say thank you, don't say sorry."
- Yao Xiao (via)

Quote of the Day

"Explorations end in Christ,
Decorations left behind,
Where will you go, where will you go,
where will you go?
Troubled heart, troubled heart, here with all"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Jupiter Winter"

Quote of the Day

"You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance."
- Gertrude Stein

Quote of the Day

"Let our hearts and hands be stretched out in compassion towards others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path."

- Dieter Uchtdorf

Quote of the Day

"Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on what we're waiting for."
- Charles Stanley (via)

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"You know what they say when you are going through hell? Just keep going. So I did. I just happened to be holding knitting needles."
- Lynne Knowlton (via)

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"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that He will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things."
- Mother Teresa

Quote of the Day

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...Things I had no words for."
- Georgia O'Keeffe (via)

Quote of the Day

"Knitting is a sexy indoor sport."
- Lynne Knowlton (via)

Quote of the Day

"It may take an ocean of whiskey and time
To wash all of the letdown out of your mind
And this may not be the thing you requested but I
Am the answer to all your prayers"
- They Might Be Giants, "Answer" (via)

Quote of the Day

"It might seem like a thankless existence
But don't lose hope just yet
You'll be remembered for your persistence
And this is the thanks you get"
- They Might Be Giants, "Answer" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."
- Anne Fadiman

Quote of the Day

"After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir."
- Wallace Stevens, "The Plain Sense of Things"

Quote of the Day

"Goodbye, basket of kittens. I can only pray that next month's calendar photo will bring us a fraction of the joy and whimsy that you did."

- Harry, 3rd Rock from the Sun 2.04

Quote of the Day

"Yeah, you guys are really good at welcoming the stranger if it's a young transgender kid, but sometimes the stranger looks like your mom and dad."
- Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber (via)

Quote of the Day

"You sanctify whatever you are grateful for."
- Anthony De Mello, S.J.

Quote of the Day

"The joy that I am feeling right now is...profound and unmatched in the modern era."

- Chris, Parks and Recreation 5.06

Quote of the Day

"A simple life lesson

to avoid getting hurt:

never trust someone

who dislikes dessert."

- Samantha Jayne, Quarter Life Poetry

Quote of the Day

"Yale was founded by finicky Protestants who worried that the Puritans at Harvard weren’t puritanical enough. But the Revolutionary War brought the Age of Reason to New Haven, and Dwight inherited a student body full of deist beatniks on the Enlightenment highway to hell, which is to say, France. This generation did not just read Voltaire; they literally addressed each other as 'Voltaire' the way kids today call one another dude. Like, 'Voltaire, I’m so high right now.'"

- Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes

Quote of the Day

"I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost."

- Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

Quote of the Day

"...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves."
- Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy 

Quote of the Day

"Jesus keeps knocking on our doors, the doors of our lives. He doesn't do this by magic, with special effects, with flashing lights and fireworks. Jesus keeps knocking on our door in the faces of our brothers and sisters, in the faces of our neighbors, in the faces of those at our side."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

- Rumi

Quote of the Day

"'I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' 

'I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!'"

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Quote of the Day

"Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story."

- Neil Gaiman

Quote of the Day

"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."
- Truman Capote

Quote of the Day

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed."
- William Shakespeare

Quote of the Day

"Breakage is a violence & a doing yr soft body cannot take. Why ruin the shell that protects you, that is yr home? , Rather, find in the forest a tender moss patch, one where there is water & a good feeding, where safe others sometimes go. Slip from yr shell (but keep it close)–nibble on a green thing. Look in the eye of a friendly creature. Retreat into yr shell. ; Do this every several days. It is the reaching for what is tasty that will coax you out; there must be no shattering ."
- Taisia Kitaiskaia, "Ask Baba Yaga: How Do I Break Out of My Hermit Shell?" (via)

Quote of the Day

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
- Aldous Huxley

Quote of the Day

"Saying 'yes' doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman. It’s also a title I can tell my kids. I like when they say 'Yes please' because most people are rude, and nice manners are the secret keys to the universe."
- Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Quote of the Day

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"
- Rainbow Rowell

Quote of the Day

"If librarians were honest, they would say, No one spends time here without being changed..."
- Joseph Mills, "If Librarians Were Honest" (via)

Quote of the Day

"It is solved by walking."
- St. Augustine

Quote of the Day

"The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises toward ever wider horizons!"
- Pope John Paul II

Quote of the Day

"Being the mother of two tiny kids frazzles you because the utterly banal is, somehow, profoundly important...It's as if world peace depended on how well you dust your living room."
- Cokie Roberts, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

Quote of the Day

"I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down."
-  Laurie Halse Anderson

Quote of the Day

"I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice."
- Mr. Fox, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Quote of the Day

"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. Slowly, I was discovering myself."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Quote of the Day

"1 was Johnny who lived by himself...AND LIKED IT LIKE THAT."
- Maurice Sendak, One Was Johnny

Quote of the Day

"Only a fool would welcome a soiled table of crumbs & empty bottles. Let them, those who would feast, bring jugs & baskets, bring fruits & goodly onions. Yr table is not for the vagrants or the doomed....Yr table is for the sweet dark wine & the tender herbs & a good eye winking at you above a full glass. Wait for the , guest who carries fresh meats, & until then, eat yr fine soups by yrself, & open the windows so the birds may come in yr house & charm yr table with their beauty."
- Taisia Kitaiskaia, "Ask Baba Yaga: Will I Ever Fall in Love Again?" (via)

Quote of the Day

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver

Quote of the Day

"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have all frozen to death."
- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

"My library is an archive of longings."
- Susan Sontag

Quote of the Day

"Screw you for thinking I'm 'random.' As if being myself is a calculated act...I'm happy with who I am, and with how my brain works, and if that makes you uncomfortable it's your problem, not mine."
- Emily, Questionable Content #2999 (via)

Quote of the Day

"Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience."
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Quote of the Day

"Civilization begins with distillation."
- William Faulkner

Quote of the Day

"We know in faith that Jesus seeks us out. He wants to heal our wounds, to soothe our feet which hurt from traveling alone, to wash each of us clean of the dust from our journey. He doesn’t ask us where we have been, he doesn’t question us what about we have done."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Sunday, 8:00 p.m. Take emotional last glimpse of U.S., having learned many lessons, met dozens of great new friends, and just really grown as a pope."
- The Onion, "Pope Francis' U.S. Itinerary" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Thursday:
9:20 a.m. Arrive at Capitol; revel in delight of meeting so many other people who also commune directly with God
10:05 a.m. Discover five minutes into congressional address that message of love and compassion not so universal"
- The Onion, "Pope Francis' U.S. Itinerary" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Cream cheese frosting is meant to live on top of carrot cake, like God intended."
- Officer O'Neill, Orange is the New Black 3.06

Quote of the Day

"He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? 
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways."
- A. E. Housman

Quote of the Day

"You don't have to be afraid of living alone. I feel so sad to think of what will happen if you don't learn this huge lesson. You'll lose pieces of yourself along the road. You know how much you love to dance?...All that joy is going to fall away because you're going to stop dancing for twenty years -- unless you take care to listen to yourself and shepherd all the pieces of who you are though to the future."
- Eileen Fisher, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

Quote of the Day

"Today, there is an inescapable duty to make ourselves the neighbor of every individual, without exception, and to take positive steps to help a neighbor whom we encounter."
- St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Quote of the Day

"To believe in God is not just to love life, but to work so that there is life."
- Jon Sobrino, S.J.

Quote of the Day

"Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
- Desmond Tutu

Quote of the Day

"Seek peace and pursue it."
- Psalm 34:14

Quote of the Day

"You are experiencing a time that won't come again -- not like this. This is time to spend carefully and deliberately. Romantic involvement distracts you and can blind you to what's really in front of you. And what is really in front of you? You are...What is in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself and your growth and development first."
- Phylicia Rashad, in What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

Quote of the Day

"Are you everyone's favorite librarian? You certainly are mine."
- DF

Quote of the Day

"But I don't really know this place
And it's lonesome here in a wide open space"
- Lord Huron, "Lonesome Dreams"

Quote of the Day

"I been dreaming again of a lonesome road
Where I'm lost and I've got no friends
Just the rocks and the trees
And my lonesome dreams
And a road that'll never end"
- Lord Huron, "Lonesome Dreams"

Quote of the Day

"It doesn't happen all at once...You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

Quote of the Day

"We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions."
- Albert F. Schlieder

Quote of the Day

"Stop eating people's old French fries, pigeon. Have some self respect! Don't you know you can fly?"
- Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock 2.06

Quote of the Day

"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. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people -- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
- E. B. White

Quote of the Day

"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold"
- William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just To Say"

Quote of the Day

"When you're three days down the highway
and you're looking like I feel;
if it takes a lot to keep it going,
if it takes a lot to keep it real,
take sometime for yourself and
and learn to yield..."
- Indigo Girls, "Yield"

Quote of the Day

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"
- David Foster Wallace

Quote of the Day

"Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for centuries been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice."
- Anton Chekhov

Quote of the Day

"When I said, 'My foot is slipping,'
your love, O Lord, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought joy to my soul."
- Psalm 94:18-19

Quote of the Day

"No! No! It okay! Don't be cry!"
- Liz Lemon, 30 Rock 5.01

Quote of the Day

"Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."
- Vicki Harrison