May 2012
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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)
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10 Reasons Why I Still Read Children's Books →
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My list of the reasons why I read junior fiction, inspired by reading the article “Adults Should Read Adult Books” by Joel Stein.
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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)
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to...
– Toni Morrison (via funeral)
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
– Harold Bloom (via whimsicalangel) (via awritersruminations, awritersruminations)
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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
– Emerson (via teapitcher) (via fuckyeahralphwaldoemerson)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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I dreamed of being a part of the stories -even terrifying ones, even horror...
– Francesca Lia Block (via wordsthat-speak)
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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)
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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...
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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…
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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...
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A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping...
– Mo Willems (via libraryland)
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of...
– John Morley (via libraryland)
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April 2012
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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...
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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)
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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)
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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...
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)
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