“You get to a point of not giving a damn over people thinking you're worthless. Mainly by getting there first yourself.”

some books give you an insight into a whole new world, a reality you haven’t experienced, with a finesse that manages to make the strange familiar and the familiar universal. With characterization that is so immersive you are suddenly encountering a past version of you or a thought you’ve known many times before and the line between the self and the other blurs. Books that evoke this pathos are an immediate yes for me. To a reader, this is the gift that keeps on giving