“Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.”
![“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8f/cheryl-strayed-605_book_books-were-the-world-i-could-lose-myself_724903.jpg)
