I love when you're reading a book and little moments just make you smile or cry or laugh and you just feel so in tune with the characters and nothing else matters and I love that feeling when you finish a really, really amazing book and you just slowly close it and realized that it changed you. Books have this way of latching on to you and every book you read becomes a part of who you are as a person. I can't even explain the feeling. You're not sad or relieved or happy. You just kind of sit there and soak in what you just read and slowly start to go back to normal but you never actually forget how you felt when you first finished reading the book. You don't know what to say and you don't know what to feel and you don't even know what to really think about what just happened in the book. But you know you just read an absolutely incredible piece of art and then you just go on with your life.

The magical things about books is that they take you on a journey. They take you away from real life and then they drop you off at the end of the ride and you take what you learned and maybe you'll use it to grow, maybe it'll be helping you through a hard time, maybe it'll help you better understand a situation you're in yourself and then again, maybe it won't do any of those things but you still read it. And you still got that 'finishing a really good book' feeling and you have the knowledge that the book gave you, regardless of how you choose to apply it to life or if you do at all, nothing, absolutely nothing in the world compares to that.

There are a few things that only people who live for these feeling know. If you’ve experienced closing a book you loved and connected to and felt that barely describable feeling, you’ve most likely experienced these things too.

1. Starting to read a book and looking up only realize that it’s been five hours and you’re four and a half pages from the end.

2. Trying every reading position on the couch and still not finding a comfortable one.

3. But still continuing to read for at least 45 minutes in each position because you can’t stop long enough to figure out how you want to sit.

4. Your eyes are burning and probably watering, but you’re reading so, it’s fine.

5. Meeting someone who has read the same book as you and sharing that look of knowing.

6. Sitting through a class or work and wondering the entire time about what’s going to happen in the book you’re reading.

7. You’ve definitely stained pages with tear marks and have made some of the letters or words run together.

8. You’ve also stained a page or two with drool after falling asleep with your face flat on top of your book.

9. Finally getting to gush about an amazing book with someone because you convinced your friend to read it.

10. But also knowing what it feels like to get to that exciting climax in a book and not having anyone to share it with so you just freak out by yourself.

11. You know that the time in between finishing a great book and finding the next one to dive into is actually the worst.