READING PROGRAM

Artist, Danielle Roney, looks to further engage the Charlotte community with an all-ages Reading List based on MERIDIAN’s central themes of Journey and Discovery, sharing creative inspirations to expand minds and encourage dialogue around the work.

“When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid,
the new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light,
if only we're brave enough to see it.
If only we're brave enough to be it.”

― Amanda Gorman, 'The Hill We Climb'

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between”

― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

"If you could surrender to the air, you could ride it."

― Toni Morrison

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”