January 2011
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“A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the leafy...”
– Tree House, from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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“They have heard its voice and listened to it, and the river has become holy to...”
– Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (via bodymindandsoul)
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“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (via tobeshelved)
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“I write almost always in the third person, and I don’t think the narrator is...”
– Philip Pullman (via contrive)
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“Sometimes I wonder if the stories you tell begin to tug at your life, begin to...”
– Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher (via kizamon)
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“The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (via onlyondemairt)
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But...”
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
bindall asked: hey! hi! hello!
so someone recommended your blog to me
and I'm happy they did because I really like it
(particularlly that Alice in Wonderland quote- I love all things Alice)
& now I'm recommending my blog to you
hope you check it out (and follow back?!)
okay ... sooo.. yeah... I'll just be going back to hard core...
so someone recommended your blog to me
and I'm happy they did because I really like it
(particularlly that Alice in Wonderland quote- I love all things Alice)
& now I'm recommending my blog to you
hope you check it out (and follow back?!)
okay ... sooo.. yeah... I'll just be going back to hard core...
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“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in...”
– The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray (via itookadeepbreath)
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Feed - M. T. Anderson
She said, “Look around you.” I did. It was the mall. She said, “Listen to me.” I listened. She said, ” I was sitting at the feed doctor’s a few days ago, and I started to think about things. Okay. All right. Everything we do gets thrown into a big calculation. Like they’re watching us right now. They can tell where you’re looking. They want to know...
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand (via love-and-squalor)
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Tiger's Curse... Continued.
I ended up downloading a free sample of Tiger’s Curse onto my nook. I had only read two or three pages of the prologue when I was looking at the book in the store and felt that I needed more of a trial reading period before spending anything. I could just wait and get it out of the library so that I won’t have wasted money if I end up not liking it, but I’m too impatient. I...
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“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan (via invaderxan & teachingliteracy)
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“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against...”
– Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
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“I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the...”
– The Beatrice Letters - Lemony Snicket (via tobeshelved)
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I finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
For those of you who don’t know, it’s about a living boy who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. While I appreciated the creativity of the concept, I found the plot itself to be boring. I had to push myself to finish it. I think this was because Gaiman spent a lot of time describing protagonist Nobody Owens’s morbidly unconventional childhood instead of carving out the twists...
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“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Louis Sachar (via itookadeepbreath)
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“‘All literature is allegory’, he was saying, ‘You only know yourself, your own...”
– from W. H. Auden’s lectures entitled ‘Fate and the Individual in European Literature’ as recorded by Donald Pearce (via giacona)
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“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of...”
– Marisha Pessl, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” (via tzophia)
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“Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can,...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she...”
– ‘Tis, Frank McCourt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– Edward Morgan (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
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