It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. And as the opening lines of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities swam in front of her eyes, she grasped the true and immense power of books. How they could transcend time and speak to an inner voice.
