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“This wasn't distraction or entertainment: here was a book that seemed to have been written for me, which lifted me up into its realm and united me with something that seemed to have been there all along and that I seemed to be a part of. It felt as if the words and the thoughts of the narrator - despite their agony, despite their pain - healed some of my agony and my pain, simply by existing.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling to put them in order, that almost destroyed me. It's also what allowed me to live again.”
― Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

“The body that ended up in the morgue was only a part of him. His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all of his characters were himself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It is very heartening to know that even when we get it wrong (i.e. being human) we can make it right with authenticity and kindness.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life