Sehnsucht

Toxic stress is the heavy hand of early poverty, scripting a child’s life not in the Horatio Alger scenario of determination and drive, but in the patterns of disappointment and deprivation that shape a life of limitations.

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Poverty as a Childhood Disease, by Perri Klass.

As we saw at this year’s schoollibraryjournal Public Library Leadership Think Tank, school and public libraries have a very strong role to play in mitigating the effects of poverty, for both children and their caregivers. 

(via librarylinknj)

True. Sad. And depressing.

Most social ills evaporate with the elimination of poverty.

(via far-to-fall)

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via larmoyante)

Inside a book
I’ve been meaning to
read forever, I
come across you

—David Yezzi, from “This Is My Proof” (via proustitute)