Imagine having the power to traverse the multiverse, alighting onto any planet, stepping into any reality, becoming any person you want.
That’s what books are to me. For a moment in time, you are transported into another person’s mind, you see the world through their eyes, step on roads you’ve never seen, tasted foods you’ve never eaten, feel like you’ve never felt.
That’s why I love bookstores.
I can’t fly to the stars and step on alien worlds. But every book in every store is a whole new world in itself, just waiting to be explored. It is delicious flirting, the almost having of ideas, right at your fingertips, with the promise of wisdom’s love in the air; of becoming something more at the end of a book than before it.
I can’t live more than one life. But there are scores of books that, for a brief moment in time, let me get as close as I can get to doing that.
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Couldn’t agree more. If I ever get accidentally locked up by mistake, I wanna be locked up in a huge bookstore where I can smell the smell of new books, run my fingers on textured covers and just read.