“she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see”

“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”

“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”

“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”

“The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.”