Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened