“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am, people would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
—Zooey Deschanel (via thenocturnals)
November 2011
62 posts
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via paperlover)
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson - An Apology for Idlers, 1874 (via bookshavepores)
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person — perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
—Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via bookoasis)
“Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it’s ending is always bad - because you don’t want the book to end.”
—Pseudonymous Bosch (from The Name of this Book Is Secret)
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
—The Awakening by Kate Chopin (via quote-book)
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or, “I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore …” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
—Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”
—Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
