" Dark books say to us, “This isn’t about you. You are in fact alive and safe.” Yes, there’s an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If "

― Pamela Paul , My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues