Michelle Adamo #EmptyNestReader
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I insisted on excellence. I get that from my mother. My expectations were things like requiring the officers to show up to the executive meetings, insisting officers and members show up to general meetings at least five minutes early
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“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!”
― Ahoy!
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!”
― 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.”
― Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
― Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
“Our job is to lock up bad people, to protect good people. I've never really thought of our job as finding truth. Our job is to live in gray.”
― Central Park West
― Central Park West
“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.”
― Zorrie
― Zorrie
“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,”
― Zorrie
― Zorrie
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