As Old As Time

by Liz Braswell

“You can’t have adventures without risk. You can’t have great things if you constantly fear loss.

Reading books let me realize there was a world beyond the river, beyond the people who made fun of me and my father. There were scientists, and writers, and explorers, and all sorts of fascinating people out there…somewhere…leading interesting lives…

Reading them is like traveling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.

Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn’t have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.

Each person has his or her own soul and is master of his or her own destiny.”

Go out into the world for adventure, come home for love.”