Kathleen

“Solitude is independence. —HERMANN HESSE Independence is happiness. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY Happiness is having your own library card. —SALLY BROWN, PEANUTS”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of. I”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Systemic racism is a machine that runs whether we pull the levers or not, and by just letting it be, we are responsible for what it produces. We have to actually dismantle the machine if we want to make change.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Surely her purpose in life wasn’t simply to read as many books as possible?”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill