Michelle Adamo #EmptyNestReader

“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

“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

“The basic rules that apply to the rest of the world—thou shalt not kill, for starters—don’t matter to them. They do as they please, and they don’t care about the carnage they leave behind.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“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!