“To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
—E.E. Cummings (via persephonelove)
January 2011
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“What was the point of fiction if not to edit one’s reality? If not to rewrite history? If not to soothe one’s fevered dreams?”
—Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December (via readingandwritingjunkie)
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
—Lewis Carroll (via quote-book)
“Why waste a second not loving who you are?”
—Natasha Bedingfield [Freckles] (via quote-book)
“Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
— Eudora Welty (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
—Catcher in the Rye (via followxmexdown)
whyyy
I have a book hangover.
When ever I read something good, that I really enjoy, nothing else is really good for a few days. I can’t even watch television right now. Everything just pales in comparison to reading a good story, life looks dim. Nothing draws me in the way a good book can.
