What book character changed your life the most, and why?

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2. Emma Woodhouse from Jane Austen’s *Emma*.

   *le cœur a ses raisons qui la raison ne connaît point!* and it’s so true: be careful with your heartwork: you might just get what you’ve been hoping to find for others — for yourself ♥️

3. Garfield. That’s how I knew cats are the best pet

4. Violet Baudelaire. I always grew up wanting to create things that solve problems and it was incredible to see another little girl like that on screen. As a grown up, I still channel my inner Violet when there’s a problem to be solved and I need to invent something for it.

5. Arima Kousei (I know it’s a manga and not a book). With him for the first time I felt understood with the “block” that I have for years towards the piano due to a past trauma

6. Holden Caulfield from *Catcher in the Rye*. I was a little younger than the character when I read the book, but idk, just identified so strongly with some of the angst and disillusionment that comes with growing out of childhood. It was truly the first book I ever loved.

7. It may be because I read *A Little Life* recently, but I keep going back and thinking of the protagonist, Jude. It’s not a book I would recommend to anybody because it contains a lot of trauma depiction, but I felt for Jude so much. It helped me recognise my own distorted thoughts and beliefs. Through empathising and wanting the best for Jude, by the end I thought maybe one day I’ll be able to feel this way about myself too.

8. Vanyel Ashkevron from The Last Herald Mage trilogy. I was in an abusive marriage when I read the books. Vanyel taught me to love myself, that I’m worthy of love, and how to stick up for myself. He is why I had grown enough of a spine to leave after I was strangled and raped. He quite literally saved my life.

9. Demian from Demian

   The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.

10. Eleanor from Eleanor Oliphant… because I really connected with the storytelling. It was intriguing to read about a woman that had no sense of political correctness and simply said what she said.