August 2012
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
– Honore de Balzac (via wuthering-heights)
I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a...
– Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines (via dudewheresmymuse)
Success is based on action. The more you volunteer, the more you get to act....
– Jeff Haden (via kari-shma)
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can...
– Andrea Gibson (via speak-slow)
Literature gives us an internal compass, a way to negotiate all life’s rough and...
– Why Books Provide Ballast (via bookriot)
01: At his wedding, Finnick realized that marrying...
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I have a theory that everyone’s crazy anyway. And those who think they aren’t,...
– Michael Fassbender (via quote-book)
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s...
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via quote-book)
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I like my men unattainable and out of my league
You cannot date a boy in a book. But you can date a boy who LOVES BOOKS. And...
– Holly Black (via little—-lion)
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are...
– Scott Adams (via quote-book)
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...
– Shana Abé (via kari-shma)
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...
– Ernest Hemingway (via moldavia)
I know I’m tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I’m...
– Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick (via creatingaquietmind)
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying...
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Jonathan Safran Foer | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via blogut)
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we...
– John Lennon (via kari-shma)
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...
– Phillip Pullman (via decembrist)
Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about...
– Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (via quote-book)
Ah, but your absence, the physically felt silence of your hands.
– Boris Pasternak in a letter to Marina Tsvetayeva, May 19, 1926 (via sketchofthepast)