Shameless Thievery

I stole this from Bookpuddle, a blog I visit often and comment on occasionally.  Thanks to Cipriano at Bookpuddle for this, which really resonates with me...then and now.

 So much of a child's life is lived for others… All the reading I did as a child, behind closed doors, sitting on the bed while the darkness fell around me, was an act of reclamation. This and only this I did for myself. This was the way to make my life my own.

Author Lynne Sharon Schwartz