Killing Is Easy," Said Mo, "dying Is

Every Reader Knows About The Feeling That Characters In Books Seem More Real Than Real People.

Hope. Nothing Is More Intoxicating.

Why Did Death Make Life Taste So Much Sweeter? Why Could The Heart Love Only What It Could Also Lose?

I Always Wanted To Ride A Dragon Myself, So I Decided To Do This For A Year In My Imagination.

Isn't It Odd How Much Fatter A Book Gets When You've Read It Several Times?" Mo Had Said..."as If Something Were Left Between The Pages Every Time You Read It. Feelings, Thoughts, Sounds, Smells...and Then, When You Look At The Book Again Many Years Later, You Find Yourself There, Too, A Slightly Younger Self, Slightly Different, As If The Book Had Preserved You Like A Pressed Flower...both Strange And Familiar.