Serendipity

This quote was my "Yes, this" moment for the week.  Quoted in Proust and the Squid: the story and science of the reading brain by Maryanne Wolf, page 109.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.  I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.  But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew.  There was waking, and there was sleeping.  And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger.  My real, true world.  My perfect island.

-Anna Quindlen

That was my childhood.  Right there.