"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are."

- "Date a girl who reads" by Rosemarie Urquico 

These by-now familiar words are an all-too perfect description of my present state. So it may come as no surprise that I find my tired self tearing up at work while in the middle of this book:

I apologize... but for now, these characters are real. All too real.