The Pages of the Hidden Chapter

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce

[am0rtal-blog]

I guess if someone doesn’t love you back, it isn’t such a crime. But there’s a fine, fine line between love and a waste of your time.“

“There’s a Fine, Fine Line” from Avenue Q (via am0rtal-blog)

[theperksofbeingabookseller]

You know, it’s a funny thing about writers. Most people don’t stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago–they don’t expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via theperksofbeingabookseller)

[thecuteandthecute-ish]

[grace--upon--grace]

[adayinthelandofnobody]

[fearlings-deactivated20190809]

[hplyrikz]

Clear your mind here

[somebodytodiefor]

[oh-glasgow]

Scotland against Trump.

[bibliotheca-sanctus]

Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland

[bookmarksintime]

Holy shit I never learn my lesson.

[yesterdaysprint]

what would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?

[fordeadmendeadlywine-deactivate]

This is why I really like books that are set in oldey times with people who have views like this, and why it annoys me when people say but that’s not historically accurate

[witch-of-habonim-dror-blog]

tbh, half the time ‘not historically accurate’ is code for ‘i wish things were still like my imaginary version of 19th century England only minus the cholera’

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

This just makes me absurdly happy, especially because it’s written by a man calling out other men for this shit.

[note-a-bear]

“But they didn’t know better” you sure about that?

[ultralaser]

dude was so mad about this he was snarking in all caps

[bookmania]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via bookmania)

[bookmarksintime]

I had the best first date of my entire life yesterday. 2017 is off to a great start.

[daystilchristmas]

[bookmania]

I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.

John Green, Looking for Alaska (via bookmania)

[namethatghostling]

real life hack for autistic peeps who have trouble with eye contact. if you stare at someones nose they literally cant tell the difference. i had an employer tell me that they could tell i was confident because i made such strong eye contact and i probably looked at their actual eyes twice the whole time. allistics are wild.

[slightly-fanatic]

Also, if there is a woman wearing eye makeup you can look at her makeup. When I explain my problems with eye contact to female friends I often get “But you look at my eyes all the time!”

No

You have fallen for my trick

I was looking at your eyeliner/eyeshadow/false eyelashes this whole time

[itsmesheep]

Yes, I was taught this trick by my therapist after I first found out that I have “a problem with eye contact” at the age of twenty fucking six

[fridjitzu]

I’ve found just above the top of their head can work when they’re not right next to you, such as at job interviews where there’s a desk between you!

[lil-bean-named-lil]

This. Is. Magic. I have the hardest time with eye contact because I just don’t know what to do. Like, am I supposed to maintain it the whole time I’m talking to someone? Am I supposed to sometimes look away? Am I just staring at them the whole time if I’m always maintaining eye contact even though we are having a conversation????? THESE ARE LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS SOMEONE HELP THIS AWKWARD PERSON OUT PLEASE

[alwaysbringabookwithyou]

Now I Ain’t Sayin’ She A Gold-Digger, But She Ain’t Messin’ With No Broke Wizards