May 2013
59 posts
“I guess I was waiting for something exciting and unusual to happen. I always...”
– Richard Ford, “The Sportswriter” (via littlewriters)
classmate: what are you reading
me: (holds book up higher to show the cover while continuing to read)
ladyblogger-margie:
anna-of-wonderland:
*reads the last line again*
*closes the book*
*deep sigh*
*screams*
*throws book out the window*
*jumps out the window after it*
*writhes in pain while clutching the book*
*cries and rocks it back and forth*
*puts it back down on the shelf*
*deep breath*
*Calls friend* “read this book”
gallifreyantimelady:
commander-cosmo:
ok if u borrow one of my books and harm it in any way (i.e: breaking the spine, ripping or dog-earing the pages, getting food on it, etc) i’ll probably murder u ok
#i can abuse my own books all i want but if anyone so much as creases a page i will eat them alive (via oohtheyhavenibbles)
Me: *sees book store * *looks to friend* *shuffles towards bookstore*
Friend: no.
“I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average...”
– John Green (via wordpainting)
“Do your dreams exceed your grasp?…..If dreams don’t exceed grasp, all human life...”
– Ratner’s Star by Don DeLillo (via ntnchamp2)
“I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith,...”
– Into the Wild (2007)
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (via farewell-kingdom)
“‘But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (p. 59)
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,”...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via farewell-kingdom)
“Let’s face it, buddy boy, there’s two kinds of people in the world. There’s you...”
– Nathaniel Fisher, Six Feet Under (via farewell-kingdom)
“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not...”
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via 50shadesofgeeky)
girlbyjuly:
You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
“‘Son,’ his father said, leaning forward. ‘Stories don’t always have happy...”
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via niezuviele)
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville (via restaurer)
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via farewell-kingdom)
“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting...”
– Shana Abé (via farewell-kingdom)
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
– Tennessee Williams (via farewell-kingdom)
“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”
– Bobby Sommer (via farewell-kingdom)
