“Some people have a way with words, and other people…oh, uh, not have way.”
—Steve Martin
February 2012
87 posts
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
—A.A. Milne
January 2012
88 posts
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
—J.R.R. Tolkein
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
—Arthur Conan Doyle
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
—Haruki Murakami
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer’s breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
—Jasper Fforde
“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
—Jack London
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
—Milan Kundera
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
—Tennessee Williams
“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.”
—Julian Barnes
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
—Emile Zola
“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”
—Pearl Cleage (via misswallflower)
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
—Sylvia Plath (via thegirlandherbooks)
“If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.”
—Rosemary Urquico (via esawyer4491)
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
—Cassia Reyes, Crossed (via confessions-of-a-bookaholic)
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via thegirlandherbooks)
“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via thegirlandherbooks)
“We all have our own book of life. We’re just trying to find someone who can read it and understand it. Or better yet, help us finish writing it.”
—Unknown (via cutesyquotes)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via sangueblu)
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.”
—Marcel Proust (via immortels)
“Don’t spend all your time with people who are just like you.Listen to people who come from different backgrounds.That doesn’t mean you have to wind up agreeing with them.It is tremendously valuable to know where people with unfamiliar ideas are coming from.”
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Leonard Pallats
(via theseaofgreen)
“But I knew he cared about me, he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he’d put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he’d smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I’d come around to his way of thinking in the time we’d been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn’t have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.”
—Sarah Dessen (via inspiredbythisfeeling)
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” —William Shakespeare (via decaying-organic-matter)
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” —William Shakespeare (via decaying-organic-matter)
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“I don’t need anything at all except hope, which I can’t find by looking either backwards or forwards, so I suppose the thing is to shut my eyes.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (via hermionejg)
“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
—Sylvia Plath (via 5000letters)
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
—Oscar Wilde (via iloveyoursoul)
“I am a contrarian by nature, so all it does is make me want to take real risks. I am like, ‘If we are not out on the ledge juggling chain saws, then we are doing ourselves a huge disservice.’”
—David Fincher (via thatguywhodirectedfightclub)
“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.”
—J.K. Rowling (via misswallflower)
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
—David Foster Wallace (via leaair)
