“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of the British way of life.”

“They're monsters.""That's what Edward thought.""Oh, yeah? He a friend of yours?""No, Miss Librarian. Just a main character in a wildly popular vampire series.”

“CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library.”

“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”

“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.”