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21 " «Hay más de una forma de quemar un libro, y el mundo está lleno de personas corriendo por ahí con cerillas encendidas», escribió Bradbury. "
― Meghan Cox Gurdon , The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
22 " Had Paris seen a film version of the story every couple of years, I can’t imagine that he would have had such a profound and deepening series of encounters. As he listened, he had to draw from an inner well to conjure another world, with its smells and sounds and people: the metallic concussion of a spade on dry soil, the cold shock of seawater, the pink, shining, hamlike face of Long John Silver. A child watching a movie doesn’t need to do any of that. "
23 " Human beings produce this bouquet when we’re physically close to people we love, and its effect is to help us stay emotionally and physiologically regulated. We are social animals, after all, not just creatures of social media. Being in affectionate company feels good to us. "
24 " We do not live on Camazotz, the dark planet in A Wrinkle in Time, where everyone has to conform. We can read what appeals to us and skip what doesn't, and that's as it should be. "
25 " The evidence shows,' Swift had said, 'that the difference between [children] who get bedtime stories and those who don't, the difference in their life chances, is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those who don't. "
26 " One of the effects is a decreasing ability to stay on task. "
27 " Film is a fabulous art form, but it does have a certain totalitarian aspect: the authorities have decided on the look and feel of everything from the clothes of the characters to the slant of the light to the mood and the music; the viewer’s input is superfluous. "
28 " There is no doubt that digital communication makes it possible to stay connected with people we love far away. Unfortunately, the same technology has the practical effect of putting distance even between people who share the same home. "
29 " Reading gave the daughter a way of connecting with her father and helping him in a situation that was otherwise out of her hands. Listening allowed the father to travel on the sound of his daughter’s voice, up and out of the solipsism of illness and back into the realm of mature intellectual engagement, where he felt himself again. "
30 " The acquisition of expressive language [is] related to less aggression, "
31 " There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. "