The Book of Lost Names

by Kristin Harmel

She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.

There’s danger in being principled in the midst of a war, but I believe that it’s more dangerous not to be.” “What do you mean?” He seemed to be searching for the words. “I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back.

Only you know what your relationship is with God, and you should never let anyone take that from you.”

That’s what books were for, after all. They were passageways to other worlds, other realities, other lives one could imagine living.

“My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.”