reading (is) love

"When I was a very little child, after I'd read a book I really liked I'd kiss it. Love is really the word. I think children's books are a human emotional experience rather than an intellectual one. You have a human relationship with them. Children have emotional relationships with inanimate objects which it would be wise to carry on into adulthood. The way a child makes a person out of a doll, which I never did, I made people out of books."

-Fran Lebowitz