“You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.”
“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. ”
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
“When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it”—”
“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.”
“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”