One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!
Fear, Danger
This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.
Reality, Reading, Literature
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
Children, Listening
Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.
Self, Society
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