“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.”
“When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.”
“You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.”
“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.”
“I want to scream, sometimes, I want to collapse, sometimes, I want to die knowing that I've known what it was like to live with this kiss, this heart, this soft soft explosion that makes me feel like I've taken a sip of the sun...”
“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”