““When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book all that’s any use to me, and I can’t get anything more if I read it a dozen times. You see, it seems to me, one’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.””
![“It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.” quote by Hyemeyohsts Storm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26d/hyemeyohsts-storm-61548_flower_it-is-a-flower-that-can-be-opened-in-man_2813049.jpg)
