The Last Librarian

There are a million ways to create. It’s not always typing words, painting pictures, or acting in a play. And you don’t get to decide which is correct.

Some books are so alive that they never leave you. They only change you

Peace at gunpoint is not peace.

A dusty old plaque hung on the far side of his cramped office. He hadn’t read it for years, but suddenly it had new meaning. “Libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” – John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960.

A funny word. E-lec-tion. Say it very slowly and it sounds disgusting. But if you say it just fast enough it almost sounds real, like it might even be legitimate

More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they’re always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways

They’re afraid. It’s the same as it always has been. A corrupt leader needs to control what the people think so they don’t revolt. There are three ways to do that: don’t allow them to learn anything that counters the official line, bombard them with propaganda disguised as news, and finally, give them a distraction, usually an enemy.

Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them,

To: Runit Happerman, Head Librarian, Portland Public Library. From: Multnomah County Board. The Board has been notified by the Aylantik Government that the Portland Library will be permanently closed ten days from the above date. A meeting will be held on the Field today at ten-hundred to resolve pending issues. Closing will be facilitated by the AOI.

In truth, a library contains the entire universe, and each book is a portal to a different world.

Isaac Asimov once wrote, ‘It isn't just a library, it is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better, happier, and more useful life

An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It’s convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn’t breathe.

I am not running, I am seeking. I am not hiding, I am finding.

Of all the many things I know, which is nearly everything, one thing I don’t know is what it feels like to be as inept as you are.” Blaise

What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.

we weren’t even free when we were free, but all we have now is a beautiful lie.

All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” – John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960.

But they didn’t give you everything,” she said as VMs interacted with holograms and light-forms depicting every possible outcome with CAAP in place. Most of the millions of outcomes led to disaster for Deuce Lipton, many even had Miner’s greatest rival winding up in an AOI prison.

How could there ever be a real moral reason for war?' Harper would ask rhetorically. 'It always comes down to someone’s greed. History is populated by the distorted tyrants and corrupt businessmen willing to trade a cup full of blood for a purse filled with gold.

Life is too short for retribution, grudges, and hate. Forgiveness is a beautiful power.

He believed in books, more than in people, because everything was discoverable within the pages. Read and think, and one could understand.

Dickens could have been talking about 2098. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Change lies sleeping within books, just waiting for the covers to be opened.

Kafka said, ‘All language is but a poor translation.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.’ Oscar Wilde.

if the world isn’t what it appears, if something is wrong and we can fix it, I’d rather be brave and true than safe.