Emma

“The secretary of education recently unveiled an initiative for curriculums to place more emphasis on history and language. Within the decade, proficiency in at least three languages will be required of all American schoolchildren by graduation. And along with its other recommendations, the CDC has issued a promulgation that every U.S. citizen “unplug” for at least two hours each day.
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― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Alongside the favored palazzos lurked their dark, ignored sisters, the city’s abandoned children, tilting into muddy solitude from which they could never be extracted.”
― Christine Evelyn Volker, Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City

“I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.
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― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange