February 2012
57 posts
If I could just stay locked in my room and read...
Kite Runner.
bitchpuhleaseitsmichael:
So in my school holiday I was expected to read a book, Kite Runner. I roughly spent 17 hours reading the book and answer 42 questions. Now at first I was skeptic and very reluctant to read it but I had no choice it was an a assessment. So getting deeper and deeper into the book Kite Runner grew on me, I absolutely loved it. Amir’s story is so sad, confronting and...
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (via theowlsays)
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
– - Frederick Douglass
http://www.readfaster.com/readingquotes.asp
(via doonlibrary)
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)
