January 2010
35 posts
“There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a...”
– “Night Train to Lisbon”, Pascal Mercier (via distantheartbeats) (via aloneinkioto) (via bugseatbooks) (via libraryland)
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect...”
– Haruki Murakami in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via predatorywaspobserver) (via libraryland)
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction. (via msodradek) (via enormousair) (via booklover) (via missworld) (via ipictureyouinthesun) (via kendalllouise) (via libraryland)
“Everything we do is a choice: oatmeal or cereal, highway or side street, kiss...”
– Ned, Pushing Daisies (via quote-book) (via tvquotes)
“I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a...”
– Ani DiFranco, Superhero (via quotewhore)
“Make no mistake, moving is living.”
– Up in The Air (via filmquotes)
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
“Nobody can fully understand or explain the relationship between reading and...”
– Memories from books: they come when they want to (via samchase) (via booklover)
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is...”
– Marianne Williamson (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”
– Louisa May Alcott (via quote-book)
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac | Submitted by: royalsadness (via quote-book)
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and...”
– Buddha (via quotewhore)
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
– Isaac Newton (via johannal) (via quote-book)
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– Dead Poets Society (via ireadintothings) (via quote-book)
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson (via reluctantbuddha)
“There’s no point to any of this. It’s all just a… a random lottery of...”
– Reality Bites (via alltheviciouscircles) (via clairefisher) (via booklover)
“Beloved books: a fragment of me in the words of another.”
– Alain De Botton (via booklover)
“The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social...”
– Susan Sontag (via sabino) (via booklover)
“What can you ever really know of other people’s souls—of their temptations,...”
– C.S. Lewis (via reluctantbuddha)
November 2009
27 posts
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. ~Susan Sontag”
– (via iwannotowidigdo) (via libraryland)
“What have you known of loss that makes you different from other men?”
– Gilgamesh (via airwalker) (via leprintemps) (via nihilnoetia)
“What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that...”
– E. L. Doctorow (via kendalllouise)
(via libraryland)
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“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family —...”
– Willa Cather (via nihilnoetia)
"Better to write for yourself and have no public,...
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via underfundig) (via booklover)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac (via quotewhore)
“ “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via wildcat2030) (via amiquote) (via booklover)
“But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an...”
– ~ from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (via ohthepaint) (via booklover)
