She smiled. “You once said I should live in the moment, and not so much in my books. Over the years, books have become my companions. I could travel without traveling, meet people without leaving Dingwall, become someone else when my life seemed too much. Feel without really feeling.”
“A waste of a good life.”
“Yes. I want to live as well as read. So” —she spread her hands— “I am doing just that...”
—Karen Hawkins, The Prince Who Loved Me