The Quiet Librarian

by Allen Eskens

“Men have the capacity for good as much as they have the capacity for cruelty. What is right and what is wrong is written on our hearts. But when there is war, men follow what they choose to follow and rationalize the evil they do.

“My father once told me that what is right and what is wrong is written on our hearts—that we need only pay heed. Still, I have come to believe that the world is overpopulated by men who will take the path of cruelty far too easily.”