I read to live, to breathe

We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum.

[boooklover]

“He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

[boooklover]

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.”

Kiera Cass, The One

[fluorescentbrains]

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

[books-in-a-storm]

Romance A Day🌹

Capone's Wild Thing, Ciara St. James

[yasmiganzh]

[sydneymack]

“You’re not a problem, Misery. You’re a privilege.”

Lowe and Misery - Bride

Artist: @/alicia.mb.art

[echoingliterature]

Lookit my little fall bookshelf

[echoingliterature]

I cry at everything, and that’s on a normal day. I cry at sad events, whether for me, a friend, or a total stranger ordering a cappuccino at the coffee shop where I worked during college. I cry at commercials. Before my period. During my period. After my period and until my next period. My tears are like ready soldiers, prepared for battle and marching out at the first hint of trouble.

Emma St. Claire and Jenny Proctor [[Eloise and the Grump Next Door]]

[echoingliterature]

My strength is my patience. My contentment. My lack of a need for drama.

-Sara Ney [[Hard Love]]

[echoingliterature]

I'm a month late, obviously. But 2021 was a little slower than usual.

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[ianvs-deactivated20241214]

@allornothinglove

[echoingliterature]

This would be perfect, really. Provided that he reads as quickly as I do lol

[echoingliterature]

[She] asked for nothing not because she feared she’d never get it, but because she was a master of creating her own truth."

- CD Reiss, Iron Crowne

[leonardcohenofficial]

[echoingliterature]

“I’m not trying to be someone new. I like me. I’m good at me. It’s all the other non-me people I didn’t want to be around anymore.”

- Julie Olivia, [[Thick as Thieves]]

[echoingliterature]

I could feel the pain in my heart, waiting for acknowledgment. As long as I didn’t give it space in my head, I could pretend that it didn’t exist.

- M.S Parker [[Strangers in Love]]

[echoingliterature]

Ok so this book has one of THE most gruesome torture scenes I've ever read. I've gone through my fair share of dark romances with gangs, mafia, bratva, of all sorts. I've read stalker and obsession romances. And YET this one surprised me.

I didnt think I'd need to go back and read the entire series straight through, but since they're interconnected standalones, it may have been helpful to do so to really understand the structure of this group because after reading just this book? I'm still a little confused.

[echoingliterature]

There’re other gentlemen out there in the wild and you’ll find yours. When you do, you make sure he hands you the world and not an ounce less.

Brynne Asher [[Athica Lane]]