October 2011
“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
—Anne Fadiman (via llibre)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
—James Baldwin (via decrepito)
“Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!”
—~Anonymous
“I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.”
—John Ruskin (via consistentcontradiction)
“Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.”
—William Faulkner (via girlwithoutwings)
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
—
Elizabeth Hardwick
(via eclectic-dreamer)
“Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. Those three things haven’t changed from my childhood. I know what I love, still, now. That’s a confidence. If you don’t know what you love, you are lost.”
—Haruki Murakami (via tropicanastasia)
