"To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one."

Escape, Nerd, Fiction, Reality, Preference

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"To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one."

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"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."

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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

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Self

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"I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you. "It made us roommates, he says. I shake my head. "We were always more. "We were enemies."You were the centre of my universe, I say. "Everything else spun around you."

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"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."

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"Cath exhaled. Then inhaled. Her chest was so tight, it hurt both ways. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest."

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Purpose

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