February 2012
54 posts
takeastepbackandlove:
i have a massive urge to drop out of school delete my facebook and tumblr throw my phone out the window and get on a train to somewhere random and just go on a massive adventure
“Books take me away.
That’s what I love about them.
Reality sucks.”
– twentyfourfailures
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
– Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (via fyeahliteraryquotes)
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
“I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless...”
– Boris Pasternak (via misswallflower)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
– Vincent van Gogh (via misswallflower)
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via elige)
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin (via kerryquotesquotes)
I wished I lived in the novels I read.
“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (via feelinganddreaming)
“Why does this guy come in at 7:30 every morning, cry for four hours, and then...”
– John Green describing what the baristas at Starbucks where he wrote The Fault in Our Stars must have thought of him. January 30, 2012 at Third Place Books. (via ashakensnowglobe)