June 2011
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“Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing...”
– Stephen King (via thewritersreads)
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“Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner (via kari-shma)
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“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer...”
– Salman Rushdie (via prettybooks) (via teachingliteracy) (via inkypages)
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“There are only two worlds—your world, which is the real world, and other worlds,...”
– The Books of Magic, Neil Gaiman (via damebyron)
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“Truth be told, the world isn’t divided by race or religion…. No, it’s divided by...”
– some kid from someplace somewhere. (via yourenotmybiggestproblem)
and I totally agree :)
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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 (via never-clever)
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Melancholy by Anna Kamienska
awritersruminations:
It is a melancholy of my own woven out of my own world out of all that did not happen all that was done out of paths through woods and across fields out of hanging branches of hazel that hit the face out of the tangle of graveyard blackberries out of the whiteness of snows out of heavy birds A melancholy of my own like the face undeserved impossible to tear off
(translated...
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Insane Fun: BOOK MEME TIME →
krissymcgrissy:
It’s everywhere, you can’t escape it, and here’s one more.
Bold the ones you’ve read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn’t count. Abridged versions don’t count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you’ve read 7 of these, you are above the average.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR...
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“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via bookoasis)
a gateway to hard-core literature
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“[A library] isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the...”
– Isaac Asimov in a March 16, 1971 (posted on lettersofnote.com)
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“The lofty bookshelves sag
Under thousands of sleeping souls
Silence, hopeful—...”
– Xi Chuan, “Books”, New Generations (via bookoasis)
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“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end...”
– The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
this happens to me all the time
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“If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.”
– Terry Pratchett (via reading-is-fun)
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“I can’t imagine home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have...”
– Louise Erdrich (via englishprof)
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“In a good bookroom, you feel in some way that you are absorbing the wisdom...”
– Mark Twain (via cynthiasusan)
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“Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via bookoasis)
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“Now I know what you’re going to say, Dartmouth. You’re going to say, ‘Well,...”
– Conan O’Brien, commencement address to Dartmouth College class of 2011. (via englishprof)
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“Fiction doesn’t present the unreal; it presents the possibly real, something...”
– J.L. Wall
(via englishprof)
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“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar...”
– Mitch Albom (via kari-shma) 