Michelle Adamo #EmptyNestReader

“Are you making a…fort?
I’m fitting out our ship and preparing to sail? Climb aboard, Sailor! Make Haste!
Um, I kind of need to vacuum the rug…
What rug? That is the ocean rising at your
feet! Don’t Dillydally, take hold of this line!”
― Sophie Blackall , Ahoy!

“We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human.”
― Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

“It occurred to her then that it was silence and not grief that connected them, that would keep them forever connected, the living and the dead—her, Noah, Opal, Harold, Janie, Marie, her parents, maybe the whole world, and that this was not such a bad thing,”
― Laird Hunt, Zorrie

“Life, Virgil had said, was a good deal about discouragement and fear, and the soul, which was the true heart of humankind whether you looked at it Christian or otherwise, needed a good deal of comforting some way or other if it was expected to soldier on.”
― Laird Hunt, Zorrie