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Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.
Read a book. Recommend a book. You know what, even if you really hate it, recommend it to him anyway. Everyone has different tastes and beggars can’t be choosers, as my nan says.”
It was strange how, once childhood left, your parents became simply human, with fears and worries just like your own.
It was strange, the idea that this book wasn’t just for him, it was for everyone. All these people who had taken it out before him, people who would take it out after him.
Every reader, unknowingly connected in some small way. He was about to be a part of this too.
She didn’t remember the story, she was terrible with details, but she remembered the way it made her feel.
Those textbooks you read for school and stuff can teach you a fair amount, but novels teach you so much more!
no matter how terribly you have behaved in the past—you should do everything you can to be good.
“I guess books say different things to different people.”
But for the first time since Leilah’s dark days, weeks, and months had begun, she had let her daughter in, even if just for a moment. All thanks to a boy, a tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena stuck on a boat.
Naina had always prided herself on letting her daughters do what felt best for them, and making a space in the world for themselves. “Because if you don’t, who will?”
He only wished that when Naina had gone too, Naina had been there holding his hand. Leading him through his grief step by step.
content with his discontented life.
There was something magical in that—in sharing a world you have loved; allowing someone to see it through the same pair of spectacles you saw it through yourself.
“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
And a place is only what it is because of the people who make it.
Books always change as the person who reads them changes too. That’s what Ba said.”
He knew so much had changed, for better, and for worse . . . but this was one of the good moments, one of the loveliest moments.
