Books

Book characters are like persons: persons who die when the book ends.
Stop reading the book, when the end comes closer, is like pretending that you're keeping alive something, something that can't be kept alive.
It could seem that we are the ones who decide to go on or not, to make the end coming and to let disappear the characters. But the book and its characters win.
We make characters more real than ourself. We give them the power.
As Szabó Magda wrote "(...) the dead always win. Only who is alive loses."
A book is dead. We make it alive when we read it, but it still wins because of its lack of real life.