December 2010
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I read so I don't go insane.
ellemarie38:
It’s like my mental drug. Calms everything.
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“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect...”
– Sam Keen (via @johannal)
“You don’t need to give reasons for the things you do - you just have to do what...”
– Kristen Stewart (via krisisthebest)
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“In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting,...”
– Neil Strauss (via moronicbeauty)
“It is sad because you would like to believe that everyone is unique and then...”
– David Sedaris, “Santaland Diaries,” Holidays on Ice (via threeshotsfoam)
“She read about people she could never be, on adventures she would never have.”
– Pushing Daisies (via hourglasss)
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Okay, so you're 10 years old, you have a laptop,...
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“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the...”
– John Connolly
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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass (via revolutionnow)
Yoda said something like that too
(via ronenreblogs)
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“Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the...”
– Lucy Christopher (Stolen: A letter to my captor)
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“When the darkness gets easier, you know you’re sinking deeper, becoming...”
– Lucy Christopher (Stolen: A letter to my captor)
“On my fifteenth birthday I’ll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore (via librarianista)
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“The literate child reads and hears a voice in her head. It’s immediate,...”
– Ian McEwan, The Child In Time (via elizabethveronika)
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breakmenow:
And I just want to escape. So find me a book, drown me in words, of a life that isn’t mine… because sometimes that’s the only way out.
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“You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell...”
– John Lennon (via aconversationoncool)
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“It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting for only then could...”
– Dumbledore
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“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cosy rain. This is the kind the anonymous...”
– Susan Allen Toth (via starsmending)
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When I open a book...
thelostreader:
I can create my own world shaped by the characters of the plot I’m following. I can imagine where they are walking, through lush forests, cold winter mountains or under the warm sun. I can feel their emotions from joy to sorrow. I’m immersed in a world dependent on my imagination. The words in front of me are my guide and my eyes my portal into a whole new dimension.
Open the...
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Exam Week (SHINee Version)
letsputinsecretway:
maknaetaeminnie:
Stay up late the night before to study
Give up and go to sleep
Wake up that morning
Meet up with your friends before school starts and wish them good luck
You enter your class, teacher passes out exam, and once you see it…
You begin your exam, then you see someone looking at your paper and copying
You finish test and turn it in...
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“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Julian Assange on SNL (via kateoplis)
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“I’ve spent too much time wanting what was taken from me, not what was given.”
– Ben Barnes as King Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (via quote-book)