You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.