Jo Walton Quotes

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

~ Jo Walton

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

~ Jo Walton

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

~ Jo Walton

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

~ Jo Walton

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good of libraries?

~ Jo Walton