November 2011
3 posts
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via ventriloquistic)
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Douglas Coupland (via misswallflower)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via saddest-summer)
October 2011
4 posts
3 tags
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
– Maud Casey (via a-bibliophiles-blog)
2 tags
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
3 tags
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
– Maud Casey (via a-bibliophiles-blog)
September 2011
2 posts
3 tags
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman (via harmoniam)
December 2010
6 posts
“Literature is news that STAYS news.”
– Ezra Pound (via excessivebookshelf)
▲Dirty Lungs▼ on we heart it / visual bookmark... →
Be my sunshine, on we heart it / visual bookmark... →
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the...”
– Bill Bryson (via theveryspiritofvexation)
August 2010
8 posts
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Althsuler (via jadorelavie) (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
February 2010
32 posts
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell (via booklover)
“I am looking at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long...”
– Doctor Manhattan (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
“Maybe the best thing to do with favourite films and books is to leave them be:...”
– Nick Hornby, Shakespeare Wrote For Money (via distantheartbeats) (via booklover)
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis (via misswallflower) (via mustanggina) (via booklover)
“Superficiality is the curse of our age. … The desperate need today is not for a...”
– Richard Foster (via azspot) (via enormousair) (via booklover)
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
– Mason Cooley (via thejanuaries) (via booklover)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via theimpossiblecool) (via exsouvenir) (via booklover)
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...”
– Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. ”
– Raymond Carver (via keremmermutlu) (via booklover)
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out...”
– Jack London (via thefloralsofa) (via shatteredsunshine) (via booklover)
If you could pick five dead people to invite to...
bookscakesnkisses:
1. King Henry VIII
2. William Shakespeare
3. Heath Ledger
4. Charles Dickens
5. Jane Austen
1. Heath Ledger
2. Kurt Cobain
3. Eduard Vilde
4. Uku Masing
5. Jane Austen
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– WILLIAM FAULKNER (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via bookscakesnkisses)
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron (via bookscakesnkisses)
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you...”
– Maya Angelou (via bookscakesnkisses)
“I’m not one for parties and stuff like that. I get a bit nervous around lots of...”
– Rachel Weisz (via emma-lou) (via booklover)
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis (via mylittlebee) (via booklover)
“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”
– Natalie Goldberg (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via unwrittenwords) (via booklover)
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the...”
– Cassandra Clare (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)