February 2011
“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun...”
– David Levithan (The Realm Of Possibility)
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via girlwithoutwings)
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable...”
– Anaïs Nin (via lifeofliterature)
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The...”
– D.H.Lawrence - ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’. (via quote-book)
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in...”
– P. G. Wodehouse (via bookoasis)
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via claerwen)
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
– Lemony Snicket (via wingsforlashes)
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly,...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via bookoasis)
“the visible exhausts me. i am dissolved in shadow.”
– Theodore Roethke (via withoutyourkiss)
“Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it....”
– Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys (via shoutabout-it)
“Teaching is a complex art of performance, intellect, innate instinct, patience,...”
– Do It Anyway, Courtney E. Martin (via lancecore)
I love this. If I could hug this quote, I would.
(via positivelypersistentteach)
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via bookoasis)
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
“Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via ellobofilipino)
“It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you...”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via comolamiel)
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via wingsforlashes)
“A delusion of (mainly moral) inferiority is completed by sleeplessness and...”
– Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud (via quote-book)
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy ( via ayuliyana )
“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
– Sherman Alexie (via libraryland)
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t...”
– Never Let Me Go (via quote-book)
