February 2012
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“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things (via cartographe)
“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via ethaney)
“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
– Arthur Stringer (via creatingaquietmind)
This is a day to stay in bed and read all day.
“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of...”
– ~Tim Burton (via bellamort-in-wonderland)
“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to...”
– Douglas Coupland (via amandaonwriting)
“Most people don’t know the answer to the question, “How are you? How do you...”
– S.I. Hayakawa (via elige)
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via cite-belle)
“My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.”
– Anis Mojgani (via atomiclanterns)
“Your world and the way you sense and perceive it is a part of you. Notice how...”
– Beverly Engel (via shetakesflight)
Two Worlds
thisisthesecretikeep:
A woman sitting alone licks her thumb and presses it to the corner of her book and with a quiet rustle changes it to the next page. Her phone rings when the real world calls and startles her from the peaceful world she has imagined herself into. She answers and speaks, then sets her phone down with a dull clack and folds herself back into her original position, losing...
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva (via ilovereadingandwriting)
