The Book of Lost Names

by Kristin Harmel

“I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?”

There’s something almost miraculous about seeing a child’s eyes light up when you hand him a book that intrigues him. I’ve always thought that it’s those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.

parents make all sorts of errors, because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we’ve lived before they came along.

The path of life is darkest when we choose to walk it alone.”