Winston Smith's Paperweight.

Lots of love, and remember the love bit. -Christopher Hitchens

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defences, you build up a whole suit of armour, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
Neil Gaiman (via griever0823)

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More great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

After the amazing response to the last one of these I made, I’ve put together more great library quotes - this time adding in your suggestions - including one from this awesome song. Keep quiet and read books:

  1. George Peabody Library - Baltimore
  2. Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra - Portugal
  3. Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial - Spain
  4. Melk Monastery Library - Austria
  5. Queen’s College Library, Oxford University - Oxford
  6. Abbey Library St. Gallen - Switzerland
  7. Strahov Monastery Library - Prague

Click a photo to see it full size. Don’t spoil it for others by removing the library names. Read part one, and support your local library, kids.