I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled. Diane Setterfield
About This Quote

This quote is an example of how books can be the most important things in our lives, but they also take on a different meaning when we read them as children. This quote serves to show how books, when read by children, play a vital role in forming their personality and shaping their love for reading. When children become adults they try to recapture the same feeling they had when they were children reading the same book, but it is no longer possible.

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

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