May 2012
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May 29th
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via misswallflower)
May 28th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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10 Reasons Why I Still Read Children's Books →
noseinabook: My list of the reasons why I read junior fiction, inspired by reading the article “Adults Should Read Adult Books” by Joel Stein.
May 27th
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“All that is wild is tamed by love— and the beloved (wildness) that once...”
– Michael Collier, “Six Lines for Louise Bogan” (via the-final-sentence)
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to...”
– Toni Morrison (via funeral)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
– Harold Bloom (via whimsicalangel) (via awritersruminations, awritersruminations)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
– Emerson (via teapitcher) (via fuckyeahralphwaldoemerson)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...”
– Jack Kerouac (via gettoffmycloud) (via awritersruminations, christineandthemachine)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance...”
– Emily Brontë (via whowearenow) (via thebrontes) (via weaveadream, myprivateopera)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“An anxiety for being me, forever trapped in myself, floods my whole being...”
– Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet” (from aperfectcommotion & gwyon)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“I dreamed of being a part of the stories -even terrifying ones, even horror...”
– Francesca Lia Block (via wordsthat-speak)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 150 (via leopoldgursky)
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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Wait - what ?: in honour of the fact that life is... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth: in honour of the fact that life is short | Danielle LaPorte: white hot truth sermons on life in honour of the fact that life is short wear your white shirts. get them pressed. use your good dishes — everyday. shave on weekends. do not wait for special occasions. do not tuck your best away in the drawers, in the back of the closet, in your heart. don’t wait for...
May 25th
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May 25th
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This is pathetic
I woke up today and my legs are sore. My only explanation is from picking strawberries. Wow. I have obviously not done any physical labor for a long time…
May 25th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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The Complex Life of a Church Janitor.: Solitude. →
churchjanitor: Jesus can expound nothing until we get through all the noisy questions of the head and are alone with Him. Oswald Chambers I need solitude. I need space to let God interrupt my endless stream of thoughts, questions, doubts, grievances, and dreams. Surrendering a bit of my time may be the conduit through which God speaks into my life.  I try to be so knowledgeable, but what do...
May 11th
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“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping...”
– Mo Willems (via libraryland)
May 11th
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May 11th
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“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of...”
– John Morley (via libraryland)
May 11th
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May 11th
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April 2012
8 posts
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you are not.
You are not your bra-size, nor are you the width of your waist, nor are you the slenderness of your calves. You are not your hair color, your skin color, nor are you a shade of lipstick. Your shoe-size is of no consequence. You are not defined by the amount of attention you get from males, females, or any combination thereof. You are not the number of sit-ups you can do, nor are you the number of...
Apr 28th
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Apr 20th
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“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There...”
– West with the Night, Beryl Markham (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“I do adore music”, she said. “It just seems to say all the things one can’t say...”
– Virginia Woolf,The Voyage Out. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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nostalgia
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”   —  Willa Sibert Cather   The trees whisper in forgotten tongues and a bird cocks its head to listen. What do these majestic creatures, so rooted in the earth have to say? What wisdom could they impart to such transient and mobile beings that flit by, there one moment and gone the...
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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September 2011
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“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s...”
– Moonchild, Aleister Crowley (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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