December 2011
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Myths, Fairytales, and Fables: Where Imagination... →
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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...”
– Philip Pullman
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words i like
gangrel: a  lanky, loose-jointed person OR a  wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.
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“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in...”
– Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...”
– George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
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“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“I tell you sir, that the end of the world has come. No one has ever beheld such...”
– Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (1831) Even then.
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“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
– Victor Hugo
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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course,...”
– Philip Pullman, The War on Words (2004)
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“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner
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“There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it...”
– E.L. Doctorow
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– George Gordon, Lord Byron
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daniellephantus asked: Just wanted to say, this is a lovely blog! I really appreciate all the effort and love you put into it -- it makes me remember all the things I loved about reading as a kid, and encourages me in all the things I want to be as a writer/person now. Thank you for contributing such wonderful work!
Dec 11th
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the-air-is-delicate replied to your photoset: Promoting Children’s Literacy Library Display Part… You really did a fantastic job with these displays. Awesome. Thanks! I had lots of help :)
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