“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Kahlil Gibran
Literature has always concerned itself with the arc of transformation: grief to grace, silence to voice, winter to spring. Easter, both in its religious and symbolic sense, inhabits that same narrative structure: a movement through darkness toward a renewed, if not fully restored, light.
Gibran’s words remind us that joy is not a denial of sorrow but its echo. Literature has long understood this: that loss and joy are not opposites but companions. Every great novel teaches it. At The Story Station, I think often about the stories we pass on. Secondhand books are, in their own way, small beginnings. Once-read, then read again. They carry the marks of lives lived, touched by hands moved by habit and affection.
Wherever this day finds you, in solitude or in ritual, or simply with a cup of tea and a good book, I hope it offers a moment of stillness, and perhaps, the start of something new.
The Story Station Team