"Libraries are our future-to close them would be a terrible mistake-it would be stealing from the future to pay for today which is what got us into the mess we're in now." Neil Gaiman

" The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain, attributed

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." Stephen King

"Only the weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry." Cassandra Clare from Clockwork Angel

" A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen.  The man who never reads lives only one." George R. R. Martin from A Dance with Dragons

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller