Currently Reading: The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie 📚
At its best, it is writing that one reads with one’s whole life, testing the work against one’s own life, and vice versa.
It is writing that invites the reader on a pilgrimage. … Certain books, certain writers, reach us at the center of ourselves, and we come to them in fear and trembling, in hope and expectation - reading so as to change, and perhaps to save, our lives.