Alessandra

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Alessandra’s Notes & Highlights

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

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I’d always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing. But I was wrong. Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn’t the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of ...more

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
― Bill Moyers

tags: community, democracy, librarianship, libraries, progressivism

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“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
― Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

tags: libraries

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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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“‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: libraries

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“For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

tags: goodbye-days, grief

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