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He can feel the story take control of his mind, pulling him away. His own thoughts, his worries, that voice, begin to buzz at the back of his mind, and eventually they become nothing but white noise.
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“The people are endlessly fascinating,” Aidan had said to her when she’d told him she’d actually gotten the job. “Like, just watching people sit and be quiet, or browse, or whatever, when they don’t realize they’re being watched . . . It’s like, I don’t know, no one’s trying to be someone they’re not in a library.”
Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.
But Indira was always searching for connection; it was just that, quite often, no one was searching with her.
Books always change as the person who reads them changes too. That’s what Ba said.”
stepping into someone else’s world, letting their emotions merge with your own, letting someone else guide you for a moment, so she could work out how best to guide herself.
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