When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.

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"When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together."

- John Berger

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"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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"Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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""Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.""

- Albert Einstein

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"Why, sometimes I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast."

- Alice in Wonderland

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