Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that __ords are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living._ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.p.20
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Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that __ords are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living._ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.p.20
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