May 29 2012
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"What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence — or perhaps it is we who change in theirs — and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more."

— Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order (via distantheartbeats)

May 20 2012
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"Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place."

— I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via kari-shma)

May 20 2012
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(Source: icanread)

May 19 2012
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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

— Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (via girlwithoutwings)

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May 16 2012
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bookmania:

“This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.” — Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

May 11 2012
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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)

May 5 2012
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"I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It’s a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It’s control, when I feel so out of control. It’s healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.
And it’s fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

— Alysha Speer (via creatingaquietmind)

May 5 2012
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"To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have — to want and want — how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!"

— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via bookmania)

May 4 2012
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quote-book:

By: Julia Walck

May 4 2012
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bookmania:

from Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov