“I can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase people, a belief system, or culture.”
―
Brianna Labuskes,
The Librarian of Burned Books
“The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“If you feel like you don’t have a choice, you’re just ignoring the options that you don’t want to consider.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase a people, a belief system, a culture,” Hannah said. “To say these voices don’t belong here, even when those writers represent the very best of a country. “I can” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“There are moments in life when you have to put what is right over what party you vote for. And if you can’t recognize those moments when the stakes are low—let me assure you, you won’t recognize them when the stakes are high. Thank you.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Books are a way we leave a mark on the world, aren’t they? They say we were here, we loved and we grieved and we laughed and we made mistakes and we existed. They can be burned halfway across the world, but the words cannot be unread, the stories cannot be untold. They do live on in this library, but more importantly they are immortalized in anyone who has read them.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Grief could warp reality into something unrecognizable.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“For missing the idea of something more than the thing itself.” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“p. 369An attack on books, on rationality, on knowledge isn't a tempest in a teacup, but rather a canary dead in a coal mine.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Don’t say something that’s not true because it sounds nice. Because it fits what you want it to be. Say I’m not crazy. Say I’m normal. Fine. Don’t say I’m strong when I’m not.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“All Hitler had to do was make people afraid: There is a monster out there who will attack you if you don’t let me protect you.” “And if that requires sacrificing a few freedoms, then that’s the price for law and order, isn’t it?” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“History is built on moments that feel insignificant,” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“The way to judge people wasn’t to look at how they acted toward people they wanted to impress; it was to look at the way they treated those who could do nothing for them.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Maybe happiness wasn’t something everyone could get. But emotional stability was certainly underrated.” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“Emotions, as always, were the enemy, dangerous and deceptive. They clouded judgments, they altered reality, they directed focus from what was important.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. —Ernest Hemingway” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“Life wasn’t always about making the right choices. Sometimes it was about making the wrong ones just to see what would happen.” ― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight
“The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“If you feel like you don’t have a choice, you’re just ignoring the options that you don’t want to consider.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase a people, a belief system, a culture,” Hannah said. “To say these voices don’t belong here, even when those writers represent the very best of a country. “I can” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“There are moments in life when you have to put what is right over what party you vote for. And if you can’t recognize those moments when the stakes are low—let me assure you, you won’t recognize them when the stakes are high. Thank you.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Books are a way we leave a mark on the world, aren’t they? They say we were here, we loved and we grieved and we laughed and we made mistakes and we existed. They can be burned halfway across the world, but the words cannot be unread, the stories cannot be untold. They do live on in this library, but more importantly they are immortalized in anyone who has read them.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Grief could warp reality into something unrecognizable.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“For missing the idea of something more than the thing itself.” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“p. 369An attack on books, on rationality, on knowledge isn't a tempest in a teacup, but rather a canary dead in a coal mine.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Don’t say something that’s not true because it sounds nice. Because it fits what you want it to be. Say I’m not crazy. Say I’m normal. Fine. Don’t say I’m strong when I’m not.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“All Hitler had to do was make people afraid: There is a monster out there who will attack you if you don’t let me protect you.” “And if that requires sacrificing a few freedoms, then that’s the price for law and order, isn’t it?” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“History is built on moments that feel insignificant,” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“The way to judge people wasn’t to look at how they acted toward people they wanted to impress; it was to look at the way they treated those who could do nothing for them.” ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
“Maybe happiness wasn’t something everyone could get. But emotional stability was certainly underrated.” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“Emotions, as always, were the enemy, dangerous and deceptive. They clouded judgments, they altered reality, they directed focus from what was important.” ― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. —Ernest Hemingway” ― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her
“Life wasn’t always about making the right choices. Sometimes it was about making the wrong ones just to see what would happen.” ― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight
