I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.