“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
“When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to startle her.”
“There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”
“I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”