Beth Reardon

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings