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.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
There is no end to what can be said about the world
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!