Thursday Thoughts...

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  
Edward P. Morgan.

I loved the imagery of examining a fragile thought without breaking it.  Some thoughts and ideas are so newly formed and vulnerable. By reading we aren't handling them or clumsily squeezing them too tight or accidentally dropping them. We are letting them flow over us, to be absorbed in the gentlest of transitions.

And how wonderful that destructive or explosive thoughts can be battled with in private, without physically injuring anybody.