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a character can be as real as a person. Or teach you as much, anyway.”
that was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go.
“Historians say a war started on such and such a day, but that war really started years before—when a man got on the wrong train and met a stranger, or a boy wasn’t loved by his mother, or a girl said no. And that war didn’t stop on its end date, either. Its effects kept going, down through the children and grandchildren, but they didn’t understand where it all was coming from because historians care more about the rocks than the river.”
Books spoke to specific people for specific reasons, and it had everything to do with where they were in their lives.
