"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

~Salman Rushdie

I'd go further than that and say that is true when anyone loves anything. I am a radioactive with early morning mists in Sylvania and noodle soup in Laos.