My feet ached in my Cinderella shoes. I shifted my weight and wiggled my toes beneath the cutting Lucite straps. My Prince Charming had finally showed up, I thought wretchedly, and he was too damn late.

“I read,” came his gravelly voice. “I walk. Occasionally I swim in the river.” S…”

“I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. …”

“A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting…”

“Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.”“…”