“That’s why I write fiction — so that I can keep telling the story. I return to problems I can’t solve, not because I’m an idiot, but because the real problems can’t be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”
—Jeanette Winterson, Weight (via distantheartbeats)
January 2012
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“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”
—A. S. W. Rosenbach, Book Hunter’s Holiday (via bookoasis)
December 2011
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“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
—C.S. Lewis (via krystarodriguez)
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
—Haruki Murakami (via firesatnight)
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
—Agatha Christie (via thegirlandherbooks)
“I can’t control my reputation, because it’s a by-product of people interpreting me. I’d like to say I worry that people misconstrue what I mean or how I go about extracting what I need, but I don’t have time. I know there are people whose feelings get hurt, but I’m here to make a movie, not friends.”
—David Fincher (via thegirlwiththefinchertattoo)
“When we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we’ve never crossed before.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (via anditslove)
“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
—Jane Hamilton (via booksandnerds)
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Becoming a teacher isn’t as simple as going to college and taking the right courses. It isn’t as easy as standing up in front of a group of learners and saying the right things. It isn’t enough to know your subject and be passionate about it.
Becoming a teacher–one who make a difference in children’s lives–is a lifelong endeavor to be the best you can be, to understand yourself, to understand the people you are working with, to think and reflect and wonder and ask questions constantly, and to almost always work harder than any other friend you have in any other profession. Becoming a teacher is a lifelong endeavor to connect… to communicate… to encourage… to support… to challenge set ways of thinking… to scaffold learners to become smarter, more efficient and effective at learning in every way they can–while you, yourself, are doing the same.
” —Paula White in Voice Matters-Just Ask My Kindergarteners #blog4nwp « Cooperative Catalyst (via cooperativecatalyst)
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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
—Neil Gaiman (via excessivebookshelf)
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love themselves. Even fat people who are TRYING to love themselves scare the shit out of people who can’t do the same. We force people to have to look at why they hate their bodies because we are “supposed” to hate ours and we don’t. And sometimes they have no idea what to do with that, so they act like assholes.”
—Tigress Osborn (via lizamazoo)
“When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
—Anzia Yezierska (via eloquentandhonest)
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via pavorst)
“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via high-delirium)
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
—Charles Bukowski
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
—Douglas Adams
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
—Isabel Allende
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
—G.K. Chesterton
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
—John Burroughs
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
—Jimi Hendrix
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.”
—Alfred De Musset
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
—Emily Dickinson
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
—Flannery O’Connor
“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
—Richard Llewellyn
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
—Willa Cather
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
—Joan Didion
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
—Edgar Degas
“Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
—Ann Patchett
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
—Woody Allen
“May you live every day of your life.”
—Johnathan Swift
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
—C.S. Lewis
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
—Sylvia Plath
