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“Well, there will be some things I very much want to miss.”

“Ah, but the more you pull away from something, the more it finds you.”

He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.

“Stories were his playground. They were his freedom. Through them, he could imagine himself a rich man, an adventure, a hero, a villain, or simply incredibly well fed. Depending on the tale, he could picture himself surviving hardship or living in greatness. They gave him room to exist beyond the red bricks and restricted life of Glossop Road.”

“books,” she once said, “are mirrors for the soul. so if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”