"She liked the sight of a good thick book. A lot of reading in that one, she would say, just as she would say there was a lot of wear in a coat or blanket. Indeed, the book was just like a warm, thick eiderdown that she could pull over herself, snuggle into.
Alice Munro
(from the short story Accident, in the collection The Moons of Jupiter)
Alice Munro
(from the short story Accident, in the collection The Moons of Jupiter)