LITERARY QUOTE PROMPT
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)
Reading a book is like meeting a new friend. Getting acquainted with their family and friends. Once immersed into a novel, I often get lost in “their world”. Such an escapism for me is rewarding and therapeutic. It is my brief vacation in another world allowing my mind, heart and soul to detach from realities of life. Every break, every free moment, long bus and metro rides, I get to meet up with my new friend of the week. Waiting in a line at the grocery store or department store, I pull out my book. I forget myself so much that I chuckle out loud or weep.
If I am on the last chapter and either on the bus or at a café, I will put the book down and wait to savour that last chapter quietly at home. I turn each page slowly, reading even slower, because I am saying goodbye to a friend. Putting down the book, I rewind and fast forward images and memories of my friend’s story before finally saying goodbye.
lost in letters
forming new friends
enchanted am I
savouring
precious last words
the last chapter
melancholy tides,
turning the last page
whispering farewell
(c) Tournesol ’14
Tournesol dans un Jardin 
I used to laugh out loud at what I was reading during classes when I hadn’t noticed the teacher come in and start. Most of them were good sports about this.
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Haha, in the metro I do it a lot. The first book of Hunger Games triology, I kept crying so I just put on my sunglasses and continued to read:)
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