Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”

Reading it again after two years has only proved one thing that my love for this book is unremitting and that it still deserve every single star. This book is beautiful, heart wrenching, cleverly contrived and an emotional roller coaster ride that will hold you in its clutches with its sharp as a tack and effectual use of analogies and its  masterful writing. This book is the definition of imaginative and powerful story telling and probably the best book you can read to understand grief, loss, love and conflicting human emotions.

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”

It's an important book for various reasons but the one reason that really stood out to me was its attempt at highlighting the importance of storytelling as a means of communication. Storytelling has a power to help people reach a common ground, to make an understanding, and say things that they can't with just mere words. And It were these stories that really made us understand what was going on inside connor's head and also made us to empathize with him. Every story had a lesson but all stories directed to just one fact: our proclivity for thinking conflicting thoughts punishing ourselves for it.

I can't praise things book enough! It's a masterpiece.

My Favorite Quotes.

"Invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen."

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"

“And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.”

" I wish I had a hundred years, a hundred years I could give it to you."