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The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else__ life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn__ been able to see before.
Katherine Paterson
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The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else__ life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn__ been able to see before.

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