February 2012
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“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and...”
– Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead (via larmoyante)
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via literaturesluts)
S&S orders Darkness for Gregory's YA novels | The... →
librarylovely:
Historical writer Philippa Gregory’s first YA novel is to be called Changeling, and will form the first of a four-book series titled Order of Darkness.
Simon & Schuster, who acquired world rights in the four titles in a joint acquisition with S&S US, will publish the first title in hardback on 24th May 2012. The books will receive a coordinated worldwide publication...
“You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes....”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (via anniethinggoes)
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure...”
– Walt Disney (via loveallthings)
“It’s just that some of the things you loved when you were thirteen you still...”
– Cherries in the Snow, Emma Forrest (via daydreamdelusion)
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Currently reading;
At age 16, Rhine Ellery has four years to live. Thanks to a botched effort to create a perfect race, all females live to age 20 and males live to age 25. On the cusp of her 17th birthday, Rhine attempts to flee, but what she finds is a society spiraling out of control.
What are you currently reading?
-Ellie
J.K. Rowling Publishing Book for Adults →
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via literaturesluts)
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Guess who went to the book store today and walked...
Yup! That’s right, me! And these are the books that I got;
Incarceron — a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology — a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture...
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“The real war will never get in the books.”
– Walt Whitman (via michaelspanninthehouse)
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via abrutalkind)
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F**k Snooki.
michiganpunk:
She is a NY Times best selling author. This pisses me off because:
A) She’s an idiot
B) That many people give a shit about what bullshit she has to say.
C) There are profound authors that were rejected and she is making money off of this filth.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Stephen King’s Carrie, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and fucking Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, just to...
“There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who...”
– American Gods (via shouting-love)
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“Stories never really end… even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories...”
– Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via larmoyante)
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“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
– E.E. Cummings (via larmoyante)
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born...”
– “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath (via literaturesluts)
“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense,...”
– Lemony Snicket (via bibliophilic-ramblings)
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“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
– David Foster Wallace (via millionsmillions)
