school libraries

hello school by ricracretro on Polyvore.com

"What a school thinks about its library

is a measure of what it thinks about education." 

--- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

missing you

"You know you've read a good book 

when you turn the last page 

and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."  

-- Paul Sweeney

the best moments

and i quote by ricracretro on Polyvore.com

the quote reads. . . "and I Quote . . . The best moments in reading are when you come across something -- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things -- that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

hug a librarian

‎"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
-- Barbara Kingsolver, novelist

book buddy

"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one."
---Chinese Saying

someone once said . . .

"writing is the inking of our thinking"

lose yourself

just a little something i made on POLYVORE

so true

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
-- C. S. Lewis

once upon a time . . .

. . . there was a little girl who loved to read. Who used to play with her sister that they were at a library and she was a librarian checking out books. Books were her constant companion as she grew. Now that little girl is all grown up and has become a real librarian. She still loves to read. She is planning on sharing her thoughts with you about the books she's read, what she enjoyed, what she wished she hadn't read, quotes that stick with her, and the joy of stories and information found within pages bound together.