“ I stayed at home to read and eat, or more accurately, to be fed—passive tense—and to disappear into the world in my head, the world I read of in books. … the kind of book that might stave off the world at large a bit longer than the others. I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time.
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
