I love the following quote from Susan Hill’s Howards End is on the Landing. I finished the book awhile ago, but keep going back to parts of it that really hit home with me. That is a particular pleasure when you’ve read a really good book.
“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me. Alice in Wonderland, The Magic Faraway Tree. The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Book of Job. Bleak House. Wuthering Heights. The Complete Poems of W H Auden. The Tale of Mr Tod. Howards End. What a strange person I must be. But if the books I have read have helped to form me, then probably nobody else who ever lived has read exactly the same books, all the same books and only the same books as me. So just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.”
A Fondness For Reading 
This is so true! Just as our history and experiences lead us to connect with certain people and form bonds, our book DNA makes those connections even stronger. I certainly share strong bonds with the book people in my life! Susan Hill says this so well.
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I agree one hundred percent, Marlo! And yes, I think Susan Hill said it beautifully!
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Books touch the heart and mind and leave a permanent mark on many of us.
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That is so true!
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Lovely!
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Meredith, I thought so, too! She said it perfectly! I did love this book. Have you read it?
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