The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

The world is full of disappointment, I said.Yes, she said, I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?No, I said. There's more than that.Like what?Like good books, I said, and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once.

I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.''But you have just told me you were sexton here!''So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories.You hate the Silent Brothers, protested Isabelle.I don't hate them, said Jace candidly.I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing.I thought you said they were libarians, said Clary.They are librarians.Simon whistled. Those must be some killer late fees.