Eye of the soul

And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf 

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#quotes  #Virginia Woolf  #emotion  #present  #past  #this is a queue  
10 months ago on June 30, 2012 at 04:53pm with 94 notes
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There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called ‘fan fiction’.

Joss Whedon (via excessivebookshelf)
#fan fiction  #quotes  #joss whedon  #lol  #this is a queue  
11 months ago on June 06, 2012 at 11:00am with 41 notes
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via excessivebookshelf)
#quotes  #soul  #books  #reading  #Carlos Ruiz Zafón  #The Shadow of the Wind  #this is a queue  
11 months ago on June 04, 2012 at 10:55am with 62 notes
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Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso (via girlwithoutwings)

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#quotes  #Pablo Picasso  #imagination  #this is a queue  
11 months ago on June 01, 2012 at 04:52pm with 62 notes
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#quotes  #books  #poster  #illustration  
1 year ago on May 07, 2012 at 02:19pm with 4,776 notes
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shelves-of-smithereens: teachersintiaras: Yes, yes, yes! *praying*

shelves-of-smithereens:

teachersintiaras:

Yes, yes, yes!

*praying*

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#quotes  #poster  #reader  #leader  #amazing  
1 year ago on May 07, 2012 at 12:10pm with 647 notes
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Sometimes we expect more from others, because we would be willing to do that much for them.

Marilyn Monroe.  (via little-li0n-w0man)

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#quotes  #quote  #Marilyn Monroe  
1 year ago on April 20, 2012 at 02:54am with 25 notes
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Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer (via excessivebookshelf)
#quotes  #reading  #readers  #books  #Donalyn Miller  #The Book Whisperer  #love letters  #conversation  
1 year ago on March 12, 2012 at 11:30am with 216 notes
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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan (via excessivebookshelf)
#books  #reading  #quotes  #clifton fadiman  #developing the film  #book  
1 year ago on February 28, 2012 at 09:23am with 257 notes
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via excessivebookshelf)
#lit  #reading  #books  #life  #quotes  #anne lamott  #Bird by Bird  #books are important  
1 year ago on February 25, 2012 at 06:45am with 149 notes
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We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away—our stories. I guess that’s what I love about books—they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

Libba Bray (via excessivebookshelf)
#books  #stories  #quotes  #lit  #libba bray  #I like to be alone  #books facilitate my aloneness  #books connect  
1 year ago on February 25, 2012 at 06:45am with 38 notes
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Maya Angelou (via girlinlondon)

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#Maya Angelou  #alone  #quotes  #qupte  #you are important  #you are enough  
1 year ago on February 19, 2012 at 04:06pm with 9,400 notes
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Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis (via excessivebookshelf)
#reading  #lit  #exploration  #adventure  #quotes  #stephen king  #hearts in atlantis.  #unexplored land  
1 year ago on February 18, 2012 at 11:21am with 28 notes
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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (via excessivebookshelf)
#quotes  #lit  #reading  #eugene field  #the love affairs of a bibliomaniac  #book-lover  #reding in bed  
1 year ago on February 17, 2012 at 08:26am with 267 notes
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The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that they alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of the author.

Katherine Mansfield (via excessivebookshelf)
#quotes  #lit  #reading  #reader  #katherine mansfield  #friends with the author  #gpoy  #I get thoroughly excited when I think I alone discovered something between the lines  #and then think  #nah  #somebody else did it as well  #they must have  #it's so obvious  
1 year ago on February 17, 2012 at 08:16am with 139 notes
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