We live and breathe words.

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Su voz y las palabras de los otros, que salen como cascadas de los libros, no son para aprender nada, ni para ser más culta, ni para presumir lo leído. Es un bálsamo, una caricia, una medicina única y poderosa, un mensaje.