The World’s Strongest Librarian
by Josh Hanagarne
(Gotham, 2013)
When I lived as if I believed, belief was easier to come by.
Page 157.
Most people don’t care about exercise.
Page 184.
Miracles don’t cause belief. Real miracles don’t make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.
Page 207.
A library is a miracle.
Page 207.
A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance as their core, maybe the library can curb their effects, if only by offering ideas and neutrality. It’s a safe place to explore, to meet with other minds, to touch other centuries, religions, races, and learn what you truly think about the world.
Page 213.
A community that doesn’t think it needs a library isn’t a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It’s a community that ill. I doesn’t know what it needs.
Page 213.
Toughness is severely overrated.
Page 234.
The only ethical way to train people is to help them understand how their bodies can teach them.
Page 239.
As soon as you think you know something, that’s when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity, It’s common with religions. Understanding kills progress.
Page 248-249.
Adaptation never stops.
Page 254.