A bookworm has pink eye. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind-- I suppose in my isolation-- I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.
pick"At first it seemed that the unbreathable sultriness of those summer nights was our influence, our muse - but if might have been the opposite."
Heir to the Glimmering World | 
