February 2012
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via y0unumpties)
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak (Glory Story)
(via fuckyeahreading)
Wonderful quote, especially coming from the author of The Book Thief.
(via heavyheartedlove)
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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare." -...
“Everything requires energy. We must put energy and effort into anything we wish...”
– The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (via joelypo)
“Yes, it makes sense, Carl Jenks joked. Oh, it makes perfect sense that Hell is...”
– Swamplandia! Karen Russell (via creativecloud)
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via honeyforthehomeless)
10 Great Science Fiction Books for Girls →
wordforteens:
“…since we don’t think girls should only read books about girls (case in point: this was our all-time favorite book for many years), that fact doesn’t exile this amazing book from our list.”
I like that point. But that then contradicts making a list for girls. Why not make a list for everybody? Oh. Yeah. Stupid societal gender roles. … must not rant, must not rant…
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“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of...
― André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
Defensive reading.
Definition: jumping into a book, when the world becomes too much to handle.
