Heather James quotes:

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real