December 2011
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)
“When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of...”
– Wasted by Marya Hornbacher (via hermionejg)
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via bookstorecouture)
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising,...”
– “Introduction” to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973) by J.G. Ballard
“If one does not take charge of their own life, life will assume the role of...”
“All the stories I would like to write persecute me when I am in my chamber, it...”
– Umberto Eco (via hermionejg)
“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the...”
– Andy Andrews (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she...”
– Jane Hamilton (via booksandnerds)
“That’s why I write fiction — so that I can keep telling the story. I return to...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Weight (via distantheartbeats)
“There are those who say that life is like a book with chapters for each event in...”
– Lemony Snicket (via booksfuckingrule)
“I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950)
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