" If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in
her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And
forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.
It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in
that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it
... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than
anything else "

― Cornelia Funke , Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)