January 2012
25 Things I Learned From Opening A Bookstore
snottface:
1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.
2. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.
3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re not looking for classics, they want...
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year...”
– Courtney Martin (via aimmyarrowshigh)
When your best friend doesn't show up to school:
“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and...”
– Jennifer Kaufman (via booksandnerds)
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and...”
– Jennifer Kaufman (via booksandnerds)
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via paperlover)
“Rain is the sound of the night rolling over in its sleep.”
– I Wrote This For You (via papercrushed)
“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via bookmania)
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...”
– Philip Pullman (via onesunnycloudyday)
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via misswallflower)
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
lahnce:
I’m not lonely but I want someone in my life. Someone who talks differently than anyone else. Not simple whats up and what are you doing or whats new. Someone who can make me think about something I wouldn’t normally think about. Someone who I can have arguments with and still get through it even if it takes days. Someone who can annoy me and just make my day less boring.
Everyone is...
