January 2012
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...”
– Cornelia Funke (via ihrtbks)
“Why is being a nerd bad? Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying ‘hey, I...”
– John Green (via cloysterbell)
December 2011
“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via dancinguponthearchitecture)
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with...”
– Joan Didion
[2011 lessons]
(via mythologyofblue)
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Dammnit James Dashner!! Why Newt?! Why?!
My reaction when I found out Newt wasn’t immune;
When they took him and put him in the palace;
When he told Thomas he hated him;
And when Thomas killed him;
bookaddicted:
The woman is sitting at the bar, wearing her Chinese hat, holding a notebook and crying.
She opens the letter again. “Stop running away,” it says. “Come back to your real life.” A writer’s real life is when and where she is writing, she thinks. She is not running away in these pages, she is running forward, embracing her real life.
In the book it will say, “The dark woman...
“I had so much time to listen.
To look.
To study people and places and...”
– Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me (via bookalicious)
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“‘Because the truth sometimes hurts,’ I said.
‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘So do lies,...”
– Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
“You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get...”
– Jerry Spinelli (Just stumbled upon this quote. I should start reading Love, Stargirl.)
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To be clear!!!
fishingboatproceeds:
I have not read a single post on tumblr with an accurate spoiler. So don’t feel like the book has been spoiled for you or whatever.
But the IDEA that people are intentionally trying to shape other people’s reading experiences really bothers me. Why would you do that? How does it help you? What purpose does it serve? In what way is it entertaining? The whole affair strikes...
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl....”
– Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years (via bookoasis)
“As a writer, I want to be able to relate to my reader so much that when they’re...”
– Ellie Alchemy (via reworkingtheconcept)
One word. Sixty seconds in which to write a story... →
“If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can...”
– Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (via emiiva)
“Being a writer can be quite demotivating and frustrating at times. Especially...”
– Ellie Alchemy (via reworkingtheconcept)
“Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via midnight-quill)
Picking Your Perfect Title →
“Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen,
Was the thought of duty...”
– Richard Watson Gilder (American Poet and Veteran of the American Civil War)
Dead Writers Club: Happy Deathday, Ms. Brontë! →
deadwriters:
On this day in 1848, English novelist, Emily Brontë, died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty.
Emily, of the famed “Brontë Sisters”, was the middle sister and the author of the novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. Tragically, this is the only novel published by the young writer,…
“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via ophidiophobic)
“I lingered a second, not quite ready to take my eyes off the water or let go of...”
– ~In Honor by Jessi Kirby (via thebookishtypereviews)
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (via spencerlibrary)
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice:...”
– Paul Auster (via thakate)
“Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.”
– Mario Quintana (via quote-book)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...”
– To Kill A Mockingbird (via thepossimpiblebluebox)