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keep his mind away from the deafening silence that had welcomed him home every day for two years now.
“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.”
He could see her in his mind’s eye at twenty, at thirty, at forty, fifty, sixty, seventy too. The same ritual, the same response. For a moment, he felt like Henry from The Time Traveler’s Wife, flying through the decades to visit Naina in all those moments of her life.
seeing how happy she was had been enough. But now she was gone, he wished he’d tried harder to be with her in every single moment.
She felt relaxed now—this felt normal for a moment, walking side by side with a stranger, talking about a book.
Summers always felt lonely for her too—but this one, this one felt a little less lonely than usual.
so happy to put her own needs and comfort second to that of others. With each page, he just imagined Naina, everywhere, around him.
“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
always told me that sometimes when you really like a book, you need to read it again! To relive what you loved and find out what you missed before.
Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.
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