"A great book is a balm for the spirit. It's escapism. We can cry and be hurt without being damaged. We can fall in love with a face we've never seen. We can shout things we'd never dare say aloud. Books allow us the fantasy of living a thousand lives in the span of one lifetime. I love the promise of a blank page, of how a fictional life can unfold until a character created from firing synapses becomes as real, as fixed in time, as the rest of us."
