"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via astralplane)

"When we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we’ve never crossed before."

Ursula K. Le Guin  (via anditslove)

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And when she says, “I’ll never speak to you again,”
she means, “Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window.”

He’s supposed to know that.

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"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."

Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

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"Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly."

Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

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staree:

10-24-10 by Beverly Ealdama on Flickr.

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"There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty, and I don’t speak as a precious, first-edition-mustn’t-crack-the-spine-type collector, but as somebody who loves a shiny new paperback, and the smell of second-hand books."

J.K. Rowling on e-books (via yerawizardharry)

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pepediokno:

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”

— Lemony Snicket

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