February 2012
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“To define is to limit.”
– Oscar Wilde (via nomoreundead)
Hiatus.
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been very active on this blog lately. It’s mostly been because I’ve been preoccupied with university stuff for basically the duration of my holidays, and since I’m actually starting uni and a week or so I will likely be even more preoccupied with it then.
So, I’m sorry for being such a crappy blog-runner and this is my official...
What I'd really love right now, is a book that I...
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“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
– Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault (via doubledaybooks)
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“There is a trend in media for strong women who are outwardly so. They are witty,...”
– The Real Woman: Why Molly Hooper Is The One Who Counts (via literarynerd)
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“These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
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“You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via hoodoothatvoodoo)
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“You should never read just for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself smarter! Less...”
– John Waters (via millionsmillions)
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde. (via fuckyeahoscarwilde)
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
January 2012
99 posts
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“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,” she had once said. “Take them away...”
– Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (via thegirlandherbooks)
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“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be...”
– Oscar Wilde (via yourexistentialistgrandma)
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“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and...”
– Jennifer Kaufman (via booksandnerds)
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“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via paperlover)
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“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via proustitute)
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“I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person....”
– Matt Cohen (via precipice)
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)
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“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via thatkindofwoman)
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“Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them...”
– Emma Watson
(via musingsinfemininity)
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“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booklust)
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“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxicabs, of being out, out, far...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via liquidnight)
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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to...”
– Paulo Coelho (via myquotelibrary)
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“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (via excessivebookshelf)
I know I’m reading a really good book, when I feel...
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“It is just the literature that we read for “amusement” or “purely for
pleasure”...”
– T.S. Eliot, Essays Ancient and Modern (via excessivebookshelf)
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“The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the...”
– Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit: An American Legend)
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“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger (via cosuffering)
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via seeklight)
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“I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infinity)