Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Depression is always in the details.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

There is no end to what can be said about the world

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.