Molly Schuringa

“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf, Harper

“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

“The most important contribution of the invention of written language to the species is a democratic foundation for critical, inferential reasoning and reflective capacities. This is the basis of a collective conscience. If we in the twenty-first century are to preserve a vital collective conscience, we must ensure that all members of our society are able to read and think both deeply and well. We will fail as a society if we do not educate our children and reeducate all of our citizenry to the responsibility of each citizen to process information vigilantly, critically, and wisely across media. And we will fail as a society as surely as societies of the twentieth century if we do not recognize and acknowledge the capacity for reflective reasoning in those who disagree with us.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World