Kelli

“This world was a terrible place. It gave you people to love and then took them away before you stopped loving them. It made you mean and angry and cruel to those who needed you most. It ground you down until it was all you could do to get through the day. But most of all, it tried to convince you that you were alone in your suffering.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
― Carla Hayden

“I clutched the book to my chest in sudden, heart-wrenching sadness. Not because of the people we'd lost and would continue to lose, but because even with that loss on every horizon, life still called to me.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club