I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him — not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. Lloyd Jones
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The quotes above are examples of the power of words. Words can be used to heal or harm even if you don’t intend it to. This is an example of how words can take us to places we never thought possible. Those who write books are amazing, because they can take us inside the skin of another person, or inside their own imagination.

They are able to create worlds that live on inside our minds, where we can escape from the mundane world around us and become someone else for a little while. Words are powerful things.

Source: Mister Pip

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