January 2012
134 posts
“Love is just a shout into the void.”
– The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green (via bookreadingbookworm)
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little...”
– Paul Sweeney (via lattices)
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via doubledaybooks)
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Caramel apples: Why do you look so good at 3 am?
… when I live in a college dorm room with ramen piled up to the ceiling and nothing else.
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via doubledaybooks)
“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”
– Henry Stevens (via fsgbooks)
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest...”
– Michel Foucault (via larmoyante)
“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa (via honeyforthehomeless)
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a...”
– Lord Byron, Don Juan (via thelibrarianontherun)
“Dark chocolate, poured over velvet: that was how his voice tasted. I wanted him...”
– R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet (via jerzee55)
“Never trust people who’ve only got one fuckin’ book!”
– Billy Connolly, “Was it something I said?” (via hs12)
“The range of emotion displayed in the emoticon keyboard is broader than I’m...”
– Zooey Deschanel (via jessinetzler)
“I am alive and you are alive and so we must fill the air with our words.”
– Dave Eggers, What is the What (via pavorst)
“Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.”
– Mark Twain (via almostgolden)
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
– Emily Dickinson (via myquotelibrary)
“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”
– Voltaire (via ordinarywonder)
“I think forever is an incorrect concept.”
– John Green (via highlighterquotes)
“To write is to engage in a difficult relationship with our own language.”
– Roland Barthes from Criticism and Truth (1966)