Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

“We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Th…”

“...make you want things you hadn't even known existed.”

“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Sa…”

“what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of hum…”