While I was looking through different famous quotes about reading I didn't really come across many quotes that I really liked or that spoke to me, until I found this one by George Eliot. I liked this quote because I found that it was unique and I agreed with what it was saying. Instead of just being another quote about how wondrous reading is and how life is pointless without books (the latter is taking it a bit too far) this quote really made sense to me. People always talk about how you get something different out of books or stories after time passes and I think George Eliot was able to translate that idea very effectively into her quote. Maybe in the future I'll go back and read books that I've read in my childhood and I'll find something different in them. I wonder how I'll feel about The Catcher in the Rye in thirty years, especially if I am a parent?
See you in my next post!
Sometimes I purposely do not read books again because I am afraid that I might ruin my lovely memory of them. I believe books come to you when you need them to, when you are ready to hear what they have to say. Often I have put a book down that hasn't engaged me right away - only to pick it up a few years later to be totally immersed in the world immediately. Strange...
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