“The warm familiarity of the bookshelves kept her together, knit her back into herself as she wandered between them.” ReadingBooksAnxiety Book:For the Wolf Source: For the Wolf
“Red spent the time mostly in her room, surrounded by her books, letting the familiar passages be an escape. She was good at escaping.” ReadingBooksAnxiety Book:For the Wolf Source: For the Wolf
“Again, that sense of untetheredness, of unreality, of not being sure what to do or how to move. Books. The thought was a beacon, something to cling to. I brought books.” ReadingBooksAnxiety Book:For the Wolf Source: For the Wolf
“She read everything in the palace library, some things twice. It was one of the few ways to soothe her mind when it started churning and spilling over itself, connecting fears in spiderwebs she couldn’t disentangle. The scent of paper, the orderliness of printed words, the sensation of page edges beneath her fingers smoothed the waves of her thoughts to placidity. Most of the time, anyway.” ReadingBooksAnxiety Book:For the Wolf Source: For the Wolf