December 2010
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After all, books we read now will define us later.
– Cirilo F. Bautista, “The Romance of Books” (via roemina)
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modestmanifesto:
I love how books take you to other places. I’ve travelled afar reading different stories and entering the minds of some of the most intellectual people known in this day and age. It sounds corny but really.
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
– Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes)
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I got a gift voucher to a bookstore for Christmas from my aunt (who insists it’s a ‘crappy’ present, but I think it’s one of the best gifts I got!). I went searching for books yesterday and ended up buying Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I also found a copy of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, which I have been searching for for a long time, but they only...
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rhetoricaddiction:
Whenever I get to the last 100-or-so pages of a book, I’m torn between devouring it in an hour and finishing the story, or savoring it and making it last for another day.
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When they ask to see your gods
your book of prayers
show them lines
drawn...
– J.L. Stanley, Catechism for a Witch’s Child (via sarahjune)
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It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s...
– Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
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If I have learned anything during my short time on...
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amyrad:
There are the kind of books you love so much you read them almost too fast, although wishing they’d never end, and then there are the kind of books you simply adore, and can’t seem to finish because you reread the good parts too often, going back, highlighting and underlining and posting quotes on your tumblr. I am currently experiencing the latter.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...
– John Lennon (via thingsforinspiration)
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You know it is a good book if you literally cannot... →
secretmadness:
You know it is a good book if you literally cannot put it down, and stay up until 3 in the morning because you have to finish it no matter how tired you are or how much your eyes are burning to shut. You know it is a great book if when you have read the last word and turned the last page you…
newwhoreleans asked: Merry Christmas, darling!
newwhoreleans asked: Merry Christmas, darling!
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever...
– Benjamin Button (via snowflakesmeltonhotground)
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People say the smell of a new book is great. But I kind of like that old musty...
– Eoin Colfer (via julietbutler)
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I Dream in Books.: When I write and read, I feel... →
straitjacketbook:
Writing: I’m giving you what I’ve held in my heart and my head for as long as I can remember. I’m trying to show you the worlds that have seeded themselves there just because that’s the best way my brain works and from the other books that I’ve read that have kept me company all my life. I’m…
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I was born to travel and write verse.
– Theophile Gautier (via libraryland)
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you...
– The Catcher in the Rye - Ch. 3 (via edibledarkmark)
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
– e.e. cummings (via bwaylovex3)