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I always felt happy when I came to the library.
Books provided a secret door to escape through – something she had often been grateful for in her life.
She often thought about all the times in her life when she had wished for more time and now here she was with oodles of the stuff stretching out before her like it had all been saved up and paid with interest when she needed it least.
Reading was her other escape. Another world she could step into and be surrounded by characters brought to life on the page. She could meet untold people and live a thousand exciting lives through the pages.
Most of all Maggie missed the hugs. It was a peculiar quirk of polite modern society that without a partner or offspring in your life you were denied that one key comfort that humans require – the need for physical contact. An embrace can be on many different levels but the basic sensation of emotional and physical warmth given freely by another is most noticeable when it is no longer there.
Don’t judge a book by its cover or a lady by her cardigan.’
She’d found a kindred spirit in the most unlikely place and she was going to hang on to him as if her life depended on it.
The books opened a door for me to escape into a different world.
There was something oddly isolating about being surrounded by people and yet completely alone.
‘That’s nature I’m afraid, Tom. It’s neither cruel nor kind just pitilessly indifferent.’
‘We often think of the oddest, most irrelevant things, at difficult times. We seek out the little things we can cope with while we process the things we can’t.’
‘Friends aren’t merely the tumbleweed of faces that roll in and out of your life. Friends are the ones you connect with and who last a lifetime. You’ll pass a million people on your path and just a few will be worth spending time with.’
Every book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.
