“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.”
-Ann Fadiman
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 was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.
Marya Hornbacher
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
Neil Gaiman
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whenever my dad says, “YOU’RE ALREADY DONE WITH THAT BOOK?! WE JUST BOUGHT IT TODAY!!’ i’m all like…
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)
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“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic.”
-Carl Sagan
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All childhoods are different, but ours have something in common.
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#book #reading #read #lol #this is a queue
1 year ago on May 14, 2012 at 05:02pm with 14,255 notes
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1 year ago on May 14, 2012 at 05:02pm with 14,255 notes
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i’ll just read a book instead (by ieatcake)
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
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#book #read #reading #poster #bookmark #lol
1 year ago on April 29, 2012 at 06:18am with 335 notes
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1 year ago on April 29, 2012 at 06:18am with 335 notes
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