the fantasy remains, you better come back to earth again

when i was four, i tried green eggs and ham for the first time. a couple of years later i went to kindergarten with ramona and started a paper route with henry huggins. i helped walter the lazy mouse become a teacher, and ella free herself from lucinda's curse. i flew to an island of diamonds in a hot air balloon home, was a changeling on the moors of ireland, and set sail for the end of the world on the dawn treader. i was stranded on a desert island with a black stallion, right before running away to an abandoned church in windrixville. i went to hogwarts for the first time when i was eleven, and have made a point of going back regularly since then. after parties at east egg with gatsby and working an abortion clinic with dr. larch, i witnessed the civil war burn the south to the ground, and built a life out of its ashes. i joined a group of hobbits on their search for a ring and suffered at the hands of my relatives before becoming a governess for mr. rochester. i sold illegally obtained food at the hob with gale while befriending a clan of sparkly vampires and teenage werewolves. and i fell in love... over and over and over again - with sarcastic southerners who were anything but gentlemen, proud estate owners with ten thousand pounds a year, charming wizards who chose friends over family, students at devon school who couldn't carry a tune, the baker's son from district twelve, a man who couldn't quite get control over his time traveling, and others who leaped off the page and into my heart before i got to the end of the first chapter.

*Wrapped up in Books - Belle and Sebastian