" The professor taught with the confidence that books change you. They mess up your insides. They make you drool over the prospect of being a better human and a better lover and a better friend. They pull at your stomach and leave you raw and open and naked. Books can straight up mangle you and sometimes it’s just better if you let them do their work. "

― Hannah Brencher , If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers