Memorable Quotes from Adeline De Walt Reynolds
1 quoteA Search for All Books
Librarian
What are you boys looking for?
Lionel
Books.
Librarian
What books are you looking for?
Lionel
All of them.
Librarian
What do you want with them?
Lionel
We wanna look at em.
Librarian
Books are for reading.
Lionel
Can't I just Look at em?
Librarian
That's not what the public library is for boy, but you can look into them and look at the pictures in them. What do you want the outsides for?
Lionel
I like to. can't I?
Librarian
There's no law against it... Who's this?
Lionel
That's Ulysses. He can't read.
Librarian
Can you?
Lionel
No. But he can't either. That's why we're friends, he's the only other man I know who can't read
Librarian
One day, when you learn to read, you'll find there's a great deal to be said for the inside of books. I've been reading for 70 years and it hasn't been nearly long enough. Now run along and look at the books.
Lionel
Yes ma'am.
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