Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!
…one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of Italy and the boats that came up...
(n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.