All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
They say everyone needs something to love.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .