Michelle Adamo #EmptyNestReader

“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

“There’s a killer, and he wears a crooked hat.”
― Harry Dolan, The Man in the Crooked Hat

“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.”
― James Comey, Central Park West

“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