"You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And nonetheless, the have become your closest friends, your wisest advisers, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of."
Someone holds me safe and warm. Horses prance through a silver storm. Figures dancing gracefully across my memory…