December 2011
88 posts
“I require books as I require air.”
– Sholem Asch (via reading-as-breathing)
“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
– Anne Frank (via misswallflower)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonanthan Safran Foer (via magiquotes)
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– (via mols)
mols:
And that’s why I write. I write to remember things. It’s the same reason I take photographs. So I’ll never forget a single goddamn thing.
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– Sylvia Plath (via ktqtktqtktqt)
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The first step of getting a new book.
“My ideal vacation would be spending a week far away, by myself, in a cabin, with...”
– (via ohinsomnia)
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John Green's tumblr: The Leaking of The Fault in... →
fishingboatproceeds:
Early this morning, I learned that BN.com had accidentally shipped out The Fault in Our Stars, which will be published on January 10th, to many people who’d preordered the book. Although efforts are being made to stop shipments wherever possible, some of these people will likely receive the book…
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MY PIZZA JOHN T-SHIRT ARRIVED IN THE MAIL TODAY.
I can’t wear it until Christmas Day, and am definitely going to struggle with this.
“I always surprise myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are, in my not so...”
– Albus Dumbledore (via azzurrina)
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized:...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via arreter)
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via crookednostalgia)
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice:...”
– Paul Auster (via thakate)
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)
“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via booklit)
“Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What’s great about books...”
– “Mockingbird” by Kathryn Erskine (via julie911)
“It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave....”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via writeback)