September 2011
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toomanypeoplegrowup:
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps…perhaps…love unfolded naturally out of a...
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A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
– Isabel Allende
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while...
– Gaston Bachelard
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Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and...
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via prettybooks)
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
– A.A. Milne
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like...
– Neil Gaiman
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...
– Albert Einstein
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Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people...
– Walt Disney
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an...
– Jorge Luis Borges
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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I...
– Charles de Lint
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