October 2010
“A novel has to entertain — that’s the contract with the reader: you give me ten...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be...”
– Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter...”
– Ian McEwan (via indiethings)
Reading books doesn't make you a geek nor a nerd....
“If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via commondense) (via quote-book)
“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via adaringadventure)
“A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to...”
– ~ Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain (via thehellodiary)
“I want to be lifted up
By some great white bird unknown to the police,
And...”
– The Minneaspolis Poem by James Wright (via the-final-sentence)
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the...”
– John Keats (via circusfolk)
“I was determined never to set a studious foot inside a college classroom. I felt...”
– Truman Capote (via distantheartbeats)
“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality...”
– Lawrence Durrell (via katrinadavid)
“I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of...”
– Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them...”
– Katherine Patterson (via wordpainting)
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the...”
– David Foster Wallace, in an interview with Larry McCaffery for The Review of Contemporary Fiction (vol. 13, 1993) (via davidfosterwallace)
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...”
– Oscar Wilde (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Again and again I ask myself, would it not have been better for us all if we had...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of of a Young Girl (May 26, 1944)
“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.”
– Cornelia Funke - Inkheart (via blessedbygod)
“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest...”
– Mario Vargas Llosa (via libraryland)
“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
– Sebastian Grey in Julia Quinn’s Ten Things I love about you. (via thelonelytraveller)
“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via ladylaurin)
“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”
– Oscar Wilde (via unstableangina)
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.”
– Lois Lowry; Gathering Blue (via quoteswithlove) (via teachingliteracy)
“… each star has a name and a secret name;
the only word we hear from them...”
– Eliot Weinberger, The stars (via invisiblestories)
