“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.”

“But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.”

“She fancied herself superiour to her surroundings: surely there were higher things to live for. Yet the ugliness of this room was but a part of what she felt to be the dreariness of all life outside of books.”

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.”

“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.”

“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”