December 2011
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““For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them...”
– Hermann Hesse (via journalofanobody)
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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
(This quote is the reason I initially sought after the book itself. I’m reading it now and it was a very special moment when I came across these lines.)
(via solitarysentence)
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“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...”
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
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“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via ventriloquistic)
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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (via myquotelibrary)
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“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were...”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr. (via creatingaquietmind)
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Books are not banned because they are inherently...
teachingliteracy:
anabundanceofcolor
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“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions....”
– Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to F. W. Thomas dated February 14, 1849 (via bookoasis)
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“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via bookmania)
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“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”
– Mark Twain (via booksandnerds)
That terrible moment when not having the next book...
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“…she made her home in between the pages of books.”
– Maggie Stiefvater (Linger)
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“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via pavorst)
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“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a...”
– Abbey Lee Kershaw (via light-essence)
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“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
– Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. (via fuckyeahoscarwilde)
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“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand (via myquotelibrary)
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via proustitute)
I just realized that I love certain characters...
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“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)
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“Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s...”
– W. B. Yeats, The Irish Dramatic Movement (via bookoasis)
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“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world....”
– Lev Grossman, The Magicians (via night-call)
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“I have never fallen in love with a book that I did not love all the more the...”
– Patti Smith, Read It Again, Sam by David Bowman, The New York Times (adapted from booksandteatime)
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“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately)...”
– Mark Twain (via bookoasis)
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“One doesn’t pay [money] for a book in order to be bored. One pays for the...”
– Morris L. West (via agardeninmypocket)
“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to live in the real world,...”
– (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
– Oscar Wilde (via krgray)
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“I have never know any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
– Baron de Montesquieu (via juliebrown22)
