Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
Do ants get headaches?
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.