K. Cashman

“Every problem that society has, the library has, too, because the boundary between society and the library is porous; nothing good is kept out of the library, and nothing bad.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, “I wanna go home! I wanna go home!” Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.”
― Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

“I have come to believe that books have souls—why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away?”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you”
― Nayyirah Waheed