Leaving yourself in a book ....

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book
gets when you've read it several times?"
Mo had said..."As if something were left
between the pages every time you read it.
Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells..
and then, when you look at the book
again many years later, you find
yourself there, too, a slightly
younger self, slightly different,

as if the book had preserved you
like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”

― Cornelia Funke