Jo Walton
:: Among Others
I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
I also understand how he became peculiar. Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.
I sat in a little booth with sides and read my book ... and felt safely alone and anonymous. It's not as if I'm me, it's just that I'm "person in crowd" or "schoolgirl reading book in cafe." They got me from central casting, and when I go there'll be another one. Nobody will notice me. I'm an insignificant part of the landscape. There's nothing that feels safer.