nothing a book can't fix

[im-someone-i-guess]

are you actually reading for fun or is it to distract your mind from the current state your life is in and to keep you in a blissful fantasy where all the monsters could be slayed and problems could be solved with simply the turn of a page?

[quotemadness]

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

[awesomebookquotes-blog]

He often envied people who hadn’t read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

Charles Finch, A Stranger in Mayfair

[quotemadness]

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

[booklover]

I love that feeling you get when you don’t remember that you’re reading. When you’re so captured by a book that you forget you’re reading the words. All you see is the descriptions and conversations that being to play out like a movie in your head. You don’t even think about it. Then before you know it, you’ve read 100 pages without realizing it. That’s probably the best feeling in the world. 

[bookwormchronicles]

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel anything you've read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter

[charming-tothelast]

You know that moment when you’re reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like sit there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature 

That’s my favorite part of reading. 

[the-redefined-definition]

God, YES!!!!

[bookwormchronicles]

No two persons can ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

[macrolit]

Beautifully aged paperback classics Sylvia Plath, Albert Camus, Carson McCullers, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster

[worldofbooks21]

Reading corner😍

[mesogeios]

“In that great discourse with the living dead which we call reading, our role is not a passive one. […] We engage the presence, the voice of the book. We allow it entry, though not unguarded, into our inmost. A great poem, a classic novel, press in upon us; they assail and occupy the strong places of our consciousness. They exercise upon our imagination and desires, upon our ambitions and most cover dreams, a strange, bruising mastery. Men who burn books know what they are doing. The artist is the uncontrollable force; no western eye, since Van Gogh, looks on a cypress without observing in it the start of a flame. So, and in supreme measure, it is with literature. A man who has read Book XXIV of the Iliad - the night meeting of Priam and Achielles - or the chapter in which Alyosha Karamazov kneels to the stars, who has raid Montaigne’s chapter XX (Que philosopher c'est apprendre à mourir) and Hamlet’s use of it - and who is not altered, whose apprehension of his own life is unchanged, who does not, in some subtle yet radical manner, look on the room in which he moves, on those that knock at the door, differently - has read only with the blindness of physical sight. […] To read well is to take great risks. It is to make vulernable our identity, our self possession. In the early stages of epilepsy there occurs a characteristic dream (Dostoyevsky tells of it). One is somehow lifted free of one’s own body; looking backbone sees oneself and feels a sudden, maddening fear; another presence is entering one’s own person, and there is no avenue of return. Feeling this fear, the mind gropes to a sharp awakening. So it should be when we take in hand a major work of literature or philosophy, of imagination or doctrine. It may come to possess us so completely that we go, for a spell, in fear of ourselves and in imperfect recognition. He who has read Kafka’s Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.”

— George Steiner, “Humane Literacy” from Language and Silence

[fyp-philosophy]

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Alain de Botton

[queeninreads]

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

[bookwormchronicles]

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was the books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin

[quotemadness]

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

[bookwormchronicles]

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

[bookwormchronicles]

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mason Cooley