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wandasmaximoff

You mean reach out like.. I’ll try again .

#best scene in the movie

freckles-and-books

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.” Richard Brautigan

bookishbits

“He’s not dead. But I have a feeling he’s bored. That’s worse.”

- The Clocks, Agatha Christie

listentothestories

@readingoncloud9

sophiaelainehansonbooks-deactiv

Stories make us fly.

Person: Why don't you put the book down and come outside for a while?

Me: Haha, okay, let's be reasonable here.

steakmilk

charlie and the chocolate factory was supposed to be an allegory of privilege about a poor black kid who inherited the chocolate factory against rich white kids

also granpa joe’s enthusiasm to go with charlie makes a lot more sense now if he lived through poverty and racism and never had any such opportunity

me starting the next chapter of my book at 2 am knowing i have to work the next morning: live fast die young, bad girls do it well

ablogwithaview

Still not over our bookshop adventures in Edinburgh last week. You can see the rest of my photos via the link in my bio/over on @theatticoneighth! ✨

bookeworm94-deactivated20200223

Keep reading. Read during your break at work, before bed, on the bus, in the waiting room. Read at the table, in the lunchroom. Make time. You won’t regret it.

(via bookeworm94)

maybe-this-time

Everyone always wants to talk about Hook or Pan. Everyone always wants to debate which one is good and which is evil - who we’re supposed to follow and who we aren’t. The Peter Pan mythos has pretty much shrunk down to nothing but Hook and Pan (Hook, SyFy’s Neverland, Pan, OUAT, etc). Occasionally Tinkerbell factors in (Hook, Disney’s Tinkerbell, OUAT, etc). There’s one character, however, that always gets sidelined - which is puzzling since they are the main character of both the play and the book. That character is, of course, Wendy Darling.

Peter Pan is Wendy’s coming of age story. Wendy who decides to run away from home. Wendy who realizes that she must grow up - and that there’s no shame in that. Wendy who sees Peter as deficient and sees Hook as empty and decides that, no, she doesn’t want to be a part of that. Wendy gets the adventure she’s always wanted and she turns away because she realizes that it’s lacking. She’s the only one who truly sees the hollowness of being young forever. Barrie even says “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.”

People always debate on who the hero is. When they learn that Peter could be horrid they assume it has to be Hook. Of course, the answer is that neither of them are the hero. Wendy is the hero of the story. You’re not supposed to be like Peter, who kept every good and bad aspects of being a child and can’t tell right from wrong. You’re not supposed to be Hook, either. He let go of everything childish and loving about him and became bitter and evil. They’re both the extreme ends of the scale. You’re supposed to fall in the middle, to hold onto the things about childhood that make it beautiful - the wonder, the imagination, the innocence - while still growing up and learning morality and responsibility. You’re not supposed to be Hook. You’re not supposed to be Peter Pan.

You’re supposed to be Wendy Darling.