Some books do more than tell a story.
They quietly change the way you look at people.
A well-written story can take you inside a character’s thoughts, fears, motivations, and mistakes in a way real life rarely allows. Suddenly you’re seeing the world through someone else’s perspective — someone whose choices you might have judged differently before.
Stories like that remind us that people are rarely as simple as they seem on the surface.
Behind every decision is a history. Behind every action is a reason, even if we don’t always agree with it.
Sometimes the most powerful thing a book can do is teach you that human behaviour is far more complicated than we often assume.
Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo 