“Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.”
“My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.”
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...”
“It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...”