February 2012
52 posts
fidgetinginpublic asked: This isn't meant to be a slam. I just hope you guys aren't dissing on e-readers that much. I mean... Just because they are technological and not "normal books" doesn't mean they are inferior. At least people are reading, right? I think that literature should be celebrated no matter what form it's in, as long as it's being kept alive and strong and taught and...
“That’s the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at...”
– 11/22/63 by Stephen King, p. 200 (via zachsfletcher)
That moment when you finish reading an amazing...
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via abitlovely)
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
– ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via abitlovely)
“We have been programmed in this world to accept the suffering and devastation of...”
– Kelly Cutrone (via animapersa)
There's something seductively delicious about...
borderlineneurotic:
“You dont love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the...”
– “Jodi Picoult” (via speakingsami)
“I watched her walk away, first thinking: good riddance – who needs this abuse?...”
– Ellen Wittlinger ~ Hard Love (via cordiformcupcake)
“Although something inside told her it was a crime - after all, her three books...”
– The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
“All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via pasigmom)
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner (via skriving)
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird (via skriving)
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being...”
– Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Grey (via skriving)
“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library!”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via emeraldswillfall)
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– Edward P. Morgan (via lifebytheseaisjustrightforme)
“You should never read just for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself smarter! Less...”
– ~ John Walters in Role Models (via thejujubag)
I have always had a thing for kids' books.
robynisboss:
Especially those big ones that were too large for it to stand upright in a bookshelf. I remember having this huge collection book of Dr. Seuss stories and whenever i’d clean out my room, i’d find it lying around somewhere and I would just sit there, surrounded by my cluttered room, absorbed in the stories. ‘Kid’ oriented books were always the best definition of ‘short stories’.
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
– Mark Twain (via fragilelook)
January 2012
167 posts
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...”
– Ezra Pound (via disharmonious)