Thursday Thoughts...

"Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know." 

 Alberto Manguel

Perhaps this.

So often I seek solace in books, trying to find the words that somebody has managed to think, arrange, and express, that go close to how I am feeling.  There is a form of validation that occurs when you realise somebody else has felt this way and has thought about things from this perspective; that they too have felt bewildered, terrified or hopeless by the turns in events.

I like that way he considers that we return to books, to find words for what we already know.  

Perhaps we know, but we simply can't express; and the gift is that somebody else can and has.

Perfect.

I come to quiet knowings, 2009.