"Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library."

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One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

— Sandra Cisneros