February 2012
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I collect books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just...
– Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack, Literacy and Longing in LA (via whimsicalimpertinence)
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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thegirlandherbooks)
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If I could, I would read until the blood in my...
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January 2012
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books are there for me in ways people never have...
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You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class,...
– John Green (via julieheartsbooks)
December 2011
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not...
– Brandon Mull (via booksandnerds)
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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss...
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via bookoasis)
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Sometimes I see these pictures of beautiful places...
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November 2011
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...
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She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a...
– Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan (via famousalmost)
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If reading has always been a journey of imagination, a means of escape, it has...
– Stephanie Staal, Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life (via bookladysblog)
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It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night...
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (via awritersruminations)
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an...
– Jorge Luis Borges (via bookstorecouture)
October 2011
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The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good...
– ― Ashleigh Brilliant (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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September 2011
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