April 2012
363 posts
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“The nearest I’d come to feeling anything like God was the plain blue cloudless...”
– White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via companionable)
pentha:
My favorite deep thought is:
After you die, it is believed that you have 7 minutes of brain activity left inside you, and in the 7 minutes you experience your entire life over, in a kind of dream… Because in a dream time is stretched.
So if this is the case, what if right now you’re in that 7 minutes. How do you know if you’re alive or just reliving old memories.
Mind fucking. I love...
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via thefagartist)
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“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
How could you become new...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via rabbitinthemoon)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via psychedelicsound)
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“You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.”
– Andrea Gibson (via viage)
booknerdconfessions:
A plot twist happens in a book you didnt see coming
city of bones, jace and clary. -____-
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abookblog:
You know how when you finish a book there is this sense of ‘Yay! I finished another!’ But then you realize that it being finished means you’re done. There is no more of that to read. And you get sad?
Yeah, that’s me right now.
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via reading-as-breathing)
hyperbolequeen:
is it sad that rearranging my books on my bookcase is legitimately one of my favorite hobbies
The time I was most alone in my life, was the time...
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“Is that what I am really mourning? All the conversations we never had, the books...”
– Alison Croggon, The Singing (via distantheartbeats)
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Creating scenarios in your head, wishing they...
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
...”
– Langston Hughes (Dream Deferred)
"when you read something you wish you didnt"
“I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And...”
– Shel Silverstein, Rain. (via thecryptomnesia)
“1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing...”
– Zadie Smith’s ten rules for writing fiction. (via unicornology) (via baringmysoul) (via writingadvice) (via the-write-idea) (via teachingliteracy) (via rattlinglibrary)
