March 2012
45 posts
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Mar 30th
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“I was within and without, simultaneausly enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bookmania)
Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
318 notes
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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (via creatingaquietmind)
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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“I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via larmoyante)
Mar 21st
286 notes
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Mar 20th
2,394 notes
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“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves. From...”
– Gilbert Highet (via quote-book)
Mar 20th
1,601 notes
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Mar 20th
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“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via libraryland)
Mar 20th
1,061 notes
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Mar 20th
339 notes
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“My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just...”
– Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (via libraryland)
Mar 20th
87 notes
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Mar 20th
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“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a...”
– Alan Bennett (via oreofarms)
Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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“I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room...”
– Christine Feehan  (via creatingaquietmind)
Mar 20th
1,056 notes
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Mar 18th
53 notes
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“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lunaoki)
Mar 18th
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Mar 18th
38,346 notes
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Mar 18th
1,742 notes
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (via seabois)
Mar 18th
162 notes
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Mar 17th
177 notes
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“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.”
– Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via 4mbivalent)
Mar 17th
2,999 notes
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Mar 17th
2,097 notes
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Mar 12th
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“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via wrists)
Mar 12th
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Mar 12th
144 notes
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“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of...”
– Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer (via excessivebookshelf)
Mar 12th
216 notes
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Mar 10th
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E. B. White
Mar 9th
332 notes
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Mar 9th
212 notes
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Mar 9th
109 notes
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“Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.”
–  Rett MacPherson (A Misty Mourning)
Mar 6th
547 notes
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Mar 6th
474 notes
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“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our...”
– Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (via emotional-algebra)
Mar 6th
316 notes
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Mar 6th
253 notes
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Mar 6th
268 notes
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“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.”
–  Martin Edwards (via amandaonwriting)
Mar 4th
127 notes
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Mar 3rd
229 notes
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Mar 1st
184 notes
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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it...”
– Patricia A. McKillip (via wordpainting)
Mar 1st
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