“My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.”
“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.”
“Reality is what you can get away with.”
“You’re not getting away from me. Never again.”
“What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?”
“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”