Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape.
“All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
Elizabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
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