Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.