āIsnāt it odd how much fatter a book gets when youāve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smellsā¦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 flowerā¦both strange and familiar.ā
ā Cornelia Funke, Inkspell


















