January 2012
“I know that He exists.
Somewhere—in silence —”
– Emily Dickinson, from “[365]” (via proustitute)
“Read the best books first, or you may not have the chance to read them at all.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of...”
– Arthur Christopher Benson (via ilovereadingandwriting)
December 2011
everyone: it's just a book
you: YOU KNOW NOTHING
“I had barely glanced at the book in the pedlar’s house save to ascertain it was...”
– Kate Morton, The House at Riverton (via bookoasis)
“Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s...”
– W. B. Yeats, The Irish Dramatic Movement (via bookoasis)
“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via myquotelibrary)
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....”
– Robert Walser, The Tanners (via suzywire)
“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
– Montesquieu (via petitefeministe)
“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its...”
– Richard Llewellyn; How Green Was My Valley (via wordpainting)
“But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I...”
– Joe Bennett, Beside Lovers (via bookoasis)
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via wordpainting)