December 2010
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Dec 31st
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“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
– Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale (via halfafairytale)
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“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the...”
– Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (via libraryland)
Dec 30th
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via frolics)
Dec 30th
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I...”
– Walt Whitman (via recycled-words)
Dec 30th
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“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s...”
–  Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
Dec 28th
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“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men...”
– Jesse Lee Bennett (via libraryland)
Dec 28th
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“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep...”
– Henry David Thoreau  (via swimming-oh)
Dec 28th
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food for thought
If you could be any fictional character from a book of your choosing, who would you be and why? »tell me«
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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“Writing is a way to cheat the rule that says you only have one life to live.”
– Susannah Grant (via notwritenow)
Dec 24th
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“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library with volumes...”
– The Tempest - William Shakespeare (via aliteratelife)
Dec 24th
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“A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A...”
–  Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)
Dec 24th
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“Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a...”
– Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (via liquidnight)
Dec 24th
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“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people...”
– Matilda by Roald Dahl (via dira)
Dec 24th
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“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and...”
– Dr. Seuss- (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (via liquidnight)
Dec 23rd
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“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the...”
– Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen (via kimberlymichelle)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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petrichorpress asked: Yeah, goodreads looks pretty similar to library thing :)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– Mortimer J. Adler (via breathingbooks)
Dec 22nd
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“Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life:...”
– Stardust by Neil Gaiman (via smellslikesunshine)
Dec 22nd
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