“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”
― Endgame
― Endgame
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?”
― The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
― The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
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