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one girl's journey to find wisdom in every single book she reads      

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A living archive depicting my life-long love affair with books.

Instagram was not a think when I started this blog, and now that I’ve found the bookstagram world, I want to be able to post my pictures with my quotes. I cannot connect this blog to my instagram, so I’m moving blogs. If you would like to follow me, I kept the name - click on the link to go to the new blog to see updates. This one will not longer get new content. 

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Finished The Magician King last night, and I'm so ready to start the next one! This was one of my favorite quotes from the entire book. Design: @b00ksandq0tes Photo Credit: Miriadna

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Sometimes, silly musicals and books have big ideas. If you know who took the photo and can get me a link, I’d love to link them for photo credit! #wordsofwisdom #quotes #shrek #musical

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Who would ever have thought he could do and have and be all those things and still feel nothing at all? What was he missing? Or was it him? If he wasn't happy even here, even now, did the flaw lie in him? As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing to know. I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began.

The Magicians

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He had molded his life around an urgent problem seldom recognized, and he was unshaken - perhaps even encouraged - by the fact that so many others didn't get it. He had a steady faith that things could improve with the right kind of effort.

Jill Leovy, Ghettoside

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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

Dan Wells, Partials

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"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your now. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.

Gravity's Rainbow

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"We can't all of us be washed away by the tide of history, Sophie. Some of us must tarry in order to gather up what has been left along the river banks...We do not live in our time alone; we carry our history within us."

Sophie's World

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...her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The Rebel

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Fantasy is like Texas: everything is bigger.

Rae Carson

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...I found myself writing the map of a man, a profession, and an obsession. And like any good map, his story ultimately bled off into the margins between the known and the unknowable.

The Map Thief

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In combat your reward for a good job done is that you get the next tough mission. E Company kept right on getting the job done through Holland - Bastogne - Germany. The result of sharing all that stress throughout training and combat had created a bond between the men of E Company that will last forever.

Maj. Richard Winters, Band of Brothers

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"Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."

Band of Brothers

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He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all of her faults, bore the discovery.

Emma

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Dissect big things, giant gestures, grand emotions, into small glimpse, tiny fragments Take miniature moments, stolen seconds, blink-and-you'll-miss-them glances, and make them enormous. The miracle in the mundane, the epic made simple.

Chasers of Light