February 2012
46 posts
“You have witchcraft in your lips.”
– William Shakespeare, Henry V (via moonsiren)
life
modern-blog:
and it’s just so sad because Boo Radley is actually such a good person and no one understands and then the book is over and he’s just such a good fucking person
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
– Francois Rabelais, via John Green, Looking for Alaska (via thehamsa)
Started Paper Towns today!!!!
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I am two books behind on my goal. Shit.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”
I’ve always been fascinated by books that don’t lie parallel to the common format of story telling, if there is a definitive one anyway. So I loved the fact that this novel was written in the form of letters, and I especially love that they are sent to someone (us) that is never identified in complete detail.
I mean,...
When I was little, I used to bring a book with me...
thefortypercentsolution:
Just in case they were boring
I STILL do this, actually
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“So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen...”
– Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just...”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for...”
– Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“This is a worse that feels too big.”
– Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all...”
– Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape...”
– Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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“I hope it’s the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he...”
– Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
“I don’t think books will ever disappear for this reason: we need them too much....”
– Nancy Jo Sales (via booksandghosts)
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life...”
– Emma Thompson (via theprobablestars)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
– Albert Einstein
(via ronk)
Have you ever read a book that was so perfect and...
courtscourt:
Because I just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and I want to marry Atticus Finch. Or have him as a father. Or brother. Or President. Or best friend. Or anything. Anything at all.
“Then I thought, boy, isn’t that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for...”
– Absolutely Normal Chaos, Sharon Creech (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Your have your vices, I have my books.
“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps- she had proved to me that it was worth...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via theegreatcatsby)
I measure my life out in turned pages.
“Awful things are survivable, because we ARE as indestructible as we believe...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via longdaysandwastednights)
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Looking For Alaska by John Green
This wasn’t planned. I was at the library and I had this indescribable need to get my hands on as many John Green books as possible. And technically I only got a hold of one, by means of the request option. That book is Paper Towns which is sitting on my desk patiently waiting for me to open it.
I found Looking For Alaska on what is apparently called a “playaway”—like an...
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“Thomas Edison’s last words were “It’s very beautiful over...”
– Looking for Alaska
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“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green (via yvanagno)
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okay I’m still only half way through Wildwood. It’s kind of slow going as you can tell. But I also started listening to Looking for Alaska by John Green today on audio tape while in the car, so hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be caught up in some fashion by reading both simultaneously.
Bear with me.
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“You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the...”
– John Green, on The Fault in Our Stars at the Tour de Nerdfighting Event in Austin, Texas (21 January 2012)
January 2012
41 posts
“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quaimen (via prettybooks)