Sarah Beth Durst

Yes, yes.

That's what I love about books, that magic of that invisible line that connects people's hearts that they don't even know is there, but it is, and it ties us together.

Right.

It belonged to all of us.

And that you can experience a book at different stages of your own life.

You can go back to a story and it means something else to you.

Yeah, lifelong.

Yeah, my mom introduced me to books at a super young age.

I was like,

That small child in the library that was taking out more books than I am tall.

And she'd have to invent rules that I could only take out as many books as I could carry.

And the libraries would be like, are you really going to read all this?

And I was like, I like to have choices.

Right.

So I've always loved books.

I was super shy as a kid.

And this was a place where I could be brave, where I could make friends that would stay with me.

And I could ride dragons and defeat dragons and befriend dragons and pretty much, you know, the whole dragon thing.

All the dragons.

All the dragons.