I feel really sorry for people who don’t read. The people who call me a nerd and a loser and tell me that reading is so dumb. The people that tell me that it’s just a book. They will never know. They won’t know what it’s really like to get sucked up into a book. To not be able to put it down. To cry when the character cries. To start jumping around the room screaming when the character finally wins. To want to murder the author for making you wait a year for the next book. To get up at midnight to post what you just read on tumblr. To be able to fight dragons, and fall in love a thousand times, and be a wizard to a demigod or an alien. They will never be able to put all their troubles behind and become another person. A person is who is brave and selfless and kind. Or maybe a person who is evil and cowardly. They will never understand and for that I feel sorry for them.
(Source: demigodinstitute, via kittensaurusrex)
