beyond the bookshelf

Hello there! My name is Steph, I'm 24, and I've been a book blogger for six years. Follow for quotes and all things literature. You can find my main review blog over at www.beyond-the-bookshelf.com :)

[quotemadness]

“That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches." Devotions

[sunsetquotes]

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

— A.A. Milne

[acciobooksandsunshine]

“I’m not so weird to me.”

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via quotespile)

[weltenwellen]

Jennie Malboeuf, from “The Godhead”

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, “Mushrooms”, Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

[aseaofquotes]

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[mournfulroses]

Rose Flint, from Not A Muse: an Anthology; “Black Wind,”

[quotemadness]

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

— Katherine Henson 

[allmightsleftsock]

Part 2 of my sketchbook!

My dream is to become a children’s book illustrator, I’ve been thinking about making a book about a moth and it’s adventures for a while, this is a (unfinished) sketch of the kind of look I’d like the pages of my book to have. There’s a lot of room for improvement but regardless I’ll be posting more of my sketches for my book “Paulilla la polilla” (Paulilla the moth) in the future.

PS: I’m probably never making the book but one can dream I guess.

(Watercolours and an ink pen on paper)

[beyond-the-bookshelf]

please don’t give up, this is beautiful!

[englishgradinrepair]

“And if five times you ask yourself, / What am I doing here? set your bed on fire, / let it burn, and leave.”

— — Monica de la Torre, from “Conversions,” Repetition Nineteen (via lifeinpoetry)

[quotemadness]

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

[qvotable]

“One day I’ll find the right words, and they will be simple.”

— Jack Kerouac // The Dharma Bums

[quotemadness]

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

— Ryan O’Connell

[aimenverse]

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

[quotemadness]

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

— Ryan O’Connell