Nypl Quotes

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

Over the phone, the archivist was frosty until I told her I work at the NYPL. Then she thawed because she believed we’re kindred spirits. We are not. I’m nice to everyone, and I resent people who are stingy with basic kindness.

He had become truly happy at Haberson, but he’d never forgotten the NYPL either. The excitement of walking those halls, the visiting scholars they’d gotten to meet, the maps they’d gotten to see. Those beautiful, priceless maps. And doing it all together.

This is the third incident at the NYPL in a week,” Naomi said with a sigh, mystified. “And the most brazen of all. If only our security system was fully installed.

Yes, you do. You had every opportunity from the start to turn the map over, and you didn’t. You didn’t tell the police, you didn’t tell Irene or the NYPL. You didn’t share it with anyone, didn’t let anyone help you. You didn’t even tell the Cartographers, when you found them. You wanted to keep the map all for yourself.

When I arrive, I greet Patience and Fortitude, the mud-smeared marble lions who guard the New York Public Library. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Patience and fortitude conquer all things, and since I began at the NYPL two years ago, it’s been my motto.