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)
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tarts) (via unicornology, sometimesagreatnotion) (via zuckerborg) (via likeastairmaster) (via therealmissw) (via isharayar) (via bugseatbooks)
“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
“Ingleby Street was still all old-books shops, the kind where walking in the door...”
– Robin McKinley, Sunshine (via bibliophibious)
