1. To escape this muggle world when it gets boring.

2. The mind is a weapon, and it needs to be sharpened.

3. It's one of life's simple pleasures.

4. It's a great way to spend time to yourself.

5. You have nothing to lose but ignorance.

6. They smell great. I could get high off the smell of books. Not hammered, I get grammared.

7. It's the only way to sleep with people who like books.

8. So I can live a thousand different lives.

9. Reading stimulates the mind in a way that TV and movies will never be able to do.

10. I can use books to see the minds of authors and compare it to my own, which in turn, will help me grow as a person.

11. I can't not read.

12. It ignites my imagination.

13. Books are the closest thing muggles have to magic.

14. It's like exercise, but for the mind.

15. It's a great way to avoid life.

16. It makes you think, and in this day and age, that's a dangerous thing. Something about it is so scandalous, but I love it.

17. I feel better at the sight of a book or a bookstore.

18. It makes me feel better when I lie sick, in bed.

19. It's a great feeling when a book makes you laugh — even better when it makes you cry.

20. Dinosaurs didn't read, and now they're extinct. Do you really think that a coincidence?

21. It gives me something to rant about. Like when the ending is extremely anticlimactic or the movie adaptation is awful.