03.The Ombrachiara Library

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a town where no one spoke anymore.

Everything had been said. Everything had been written. The words, tired, had fallen asleep inside the books, and people no longer saw the reason to read them.

The girl's name was Eloisa and she had a gift: every time she read a sentence that touched her heart, a window opened inside her.

Small, imperceptible. But light came in from that window.

One day, walking near a deserted square, she found a crumpled piece of paper, perhaps forgotten by a careless wind. It said:
“The absurd arises from the confrontation between the human need for explanation and the incomprehensible silence of the world."
Signed: Camus .

Eloisa kept it in her pocket. Then she began to collect words everywhere: from books left on steps, from half-erased murals, from pages of novels in forgotten libraries.

Every word that spoke to her became a golden thread,
and with those threads, one night, she began to weave a path into the Library of Ombrachiara —
the legendary place where untold stories went to sleep.

While weaving, she understood something simple yet immense:
we don’t read books to understand the world —
we read them to stay awake as the world moves through us.

The library awakened. Sentences began to float around her, like stars.
And from that day on, every soul who felt alone and lost received a fragment of that library.

It wasn't an answer.

It was a question that brought light.

A quiet space for the grown-up soul

This fairy tale can be read by curious children and searching adults.
It talks about the power of words, about the need to collect fragments to make sense of what cannot be explained.
A book, a sentence, a page: each one can become a lantern.

Questions to share:

What is the phrase that changed you?

Have you ever felt that a book “chose you”?

What do you really look for when you read?