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“Books are the perfect conduit to convey a message to the world.
Isn’t it so heart-achingly perfect what books mean to people?
“I’m not silent.” Zofia quoted the pamphlet and notched her chin a little higher, the way Matka did when she came upon something offensive.
Sometimes a good title and a familiar name were the only things necessary for Zofia to know she’d love a book.
Ellen Hopkins for me. So underrated.
no assumptions can touch the true chasm of such loss until it is experienced.
It whispered to her in the silence, a promise only a book can make to a reader, to offer a journey unique to them, tailored to the path that life had led them.
There was power in literature. Brilliant and undeniable. Books inspired free thought and empathy, an overall understanding and acceptance of everyone.
For it truly was an event to celebrate when a library whose existence had originated in donated collections almost forty years ago, had now risen from the ashes of war and oppression by virtue of donations once more.
The world also needs to remember to never take for granted what has been gifted to us through the sacrifice of others: the right to an education and learning, the power and luxury of freedom, and the beauty to appreciate the routine of simple, everyday life.
