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Reading (n.) about ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠horror can feel like summoning it — as one comes to have the disease one reads about.

Reading (n.) Scripture ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠rightly means saying to yourself without pause: it is I it speaks to, and I it speaks about.

Reading (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nourishes a young girl best is mythology and fairy tales — and if it is not already in her, he puts it there first.

Reading (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the right book is done with the heart's eye: I lay Job over my heart and take it to bed like a child his school-book.

Reading (n.) done ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠right has two arts: to read some things so that afterward you are as one who has not read them, and others so that you can never forget them.

Reading (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠entirely about what you bring to it. If you take even the poorest book ever written and but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read, ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself.