I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not have the language in which to speak to a Latin dictionary. Chaucer does not know the words in which Henry James communicates but here they are forced to live together, forever speechless. Susan Hill
About This Quote

This quote shows how books are not always what they seem to be. Books are separated by color, size, materials used to write them on, etc. However, each book is unique and each book has something special about it. For instance, a large book can support a smaller book or even hide another book.

Each book is individual and has its own personality. The quote suggests that all of the books are special in their own way and have their own personalities. Each of these books have some value to the person who owns them because each author has some message that he or she wants to share with the world.

These messages are shared through the language of the author and that is why you need to read the books that are written in a language that you understand.

Source: Howards End Is On The Landing: A Year Of Reading From Home

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