“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”
Source: The Marriage Plot
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Variant: She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
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“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
Source: Between the Lines

Can vei la lauzeta mover, line 33; translation by Frederick Goldin, from Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (1983) p. 440.