August 2011
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“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
– The Wizard of Oz
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endofmarch:
Morning sunshine spilling on the carpet, warming my toes. Cluster flies in the windows, the continuous buzzing a distraction, overwhelming the quiet awakening of the world outside, the crickets and frogs, the leaves rustling. They buzz and fly and hit themselves on the walls, not knowing where to go, how to get out. Straining against the glass panes as if wanting to get to a world...
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“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they...”
– J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost)
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“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C. S. Lewis (via hopeful-realist)
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“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As...”
– Cornelia Funke (via aeterne)
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“You’re entirely bonkers, but I’ll tell you a secret; all the best people are.”
– The Mad Hatter (via c0ffeecups)
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“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full...”
– Death
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“It is not true that ‘we have only one life to live’; if we can read, we can live...”
– S.I. Hayakawa (via book-life)
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Listen
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R.R. Martin (via wordpainting)
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“And maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of...”
– Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books, translated by Natasha Wimmer (via bookoasis)
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“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a...”
– Henri Matisse
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“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your...”
– Rachel Kadish (Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story)
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