“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being… They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”
Source: Love Comes Softly
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“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“You can never, never have too many books”

And perhaps that might be empowering enough to at least add a bit of significance to their lives.
As quoted in [Goncalves, Delia, 'I get to whisper to them, I love you', Jason Reynolds on writing for youth, growing up in DC and his mission, https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc-native-author-jason-reynolds-mission-writing-for-youth/65-ef42a5db-8423-4149-8f18-ae8e1f52d845, 10 March 2020, WUSA, February 3, 2020]
“If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 17, “Bonfire Night” (p. 523).