by shenion | Apr 17, 2023 | Quote of the Week
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or...
by shenion | Apr 10, 2023 | Quote of the Week
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. – Ramona and the Pest
by shenion | Apr 3, 2023 | Quote of the Week
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
by shenion | Apr 3, 2023 | Quote of the Week
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
by shenion | Mar 20, 2023 | Quote of the Week
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
by shenion | Mar 13, 2023 | Quote of the Week
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no...
