1. A word for the smell of a new book.
Smells like freshness and adventures to be had.
3. A word for the guilt you feel when you accidentally tear part of a book.
I never meant to hurt you.
4. A word for the exquisite ache you feel when waiting for the paperback version to publish.
I need a copy of this book and I need it to not weigh 500 pounds and cost a million and two dollars.
5. A word for owning 7,852 bookmarks yet never finding one when you need it.
They all end up wherever missing socks also go.
6. A word for reading something you’ve always felt, but could never articulate.
SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS.
8. A word for finishing a book out of a sense of duty.
If I don’t finish this book, it will know and it will be sad. Somehow.
9. A word for that one book you read over and over and over.
It’s like an old friend who knows you best.
10. A word for not remembering whether something happened to you… or you read it in a book.
Did I declare that all adults are phony, or did I read that somewhere?
12. A word for the despair you feel when someone spoils a book’s ending for you.
The ultimate betrayal.
13. A word for laughing in public because of something you’ve just read.
Bwahahaha!
14. A word for feeling such a close kinship with an author that you feel they’re writing just for you.
Kindred spirits, by pages bound.
15. A word for when you read a steamy section of a book in public and sense that EVERYONE KNOWS.
*BLUSH*
17. … And a word for the kind of crush that develops on a person after seeing what they’re reading.
I love your brain.
18. A word for being so engrossed in a book that you begin thinking and speaking like its characters.
A good writer is essentially a magician, casting a spell on readers.
20. A word for the creeping horror you feel when someone informs you that “I never read.”
THEN HOW DID YOU LEARN HOW TO FEEL?!
21. A word for owning more books than you technically have space for.
It’s not a problem. It’s a challenge.
22. A word for reading a phrase in a book and needing to pause and just bask in its beauty for a moment.
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
23. The word for the special love that blooms when you lend someone a book and they love it just as much as you do.
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