I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again — there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have — for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.
L. M. Montgomery, The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Vol. 3 (via bookoasis)