I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived  love and loss through stories threaded in history ; I experienced adolescence by association.  My world is one interwoven web of words, stinging limb to limb  bone to sinew,  thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.  - Tahereh Mafi (book- shatter me)