My Life. My Thoughts.

[bookmania]

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Joyce Carol Oates

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I felt like a shell of myself. So much so that I now have a hard time remembering those dark days in much detail. My mind has blocked them out. But I do remember being convinced that I wasn’t going to live.”

— Emilia Clarke quoted in “A Battle For My Life,” first published c. March 2019

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Unworldly, transparent, whimsical and detached, caring very little what people say,”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. September 1918 featured in “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume I (1915-1919),”

[gloriousdarling]

“If a book is well written I always find it too short.” Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

[a-thousand-words]

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[journaling-junkie-deactivated20]

“Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.”

— A.J.B. “Late Night Bookworms”

[a-lion-heart-and-a-king]

- Sarah J Maas

[listentothestories]

“Once you’ve held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.”

— Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

[universitybookstore]

“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”

— Jonathan Franzen, born August 17, 1959.

[52booknotes]

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

— I Feel Bad About My Neck.

[what-strange-lives-we-live]

“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

[sweetteachai]

“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.“”

— Neil Gaiman 

[cleo-queen-of-pirates]

“The books she read took her to places she would never visit, gave her friends she would never have, and offered her a life she would never live. They were her escape from the world- they provided therapy for her mind, for her heart. They were her most trusted companions. Because unlike people, books didn’t care if their reader was a princess or a pauper. Their content didn’t change depending on whose eyes travelled over their pages. Books just were.”

‘Crowns and Curses’, We Three Heroes- The Medoran Chronicles Novellas by Lynette Noni.

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

— Pablo Neruda. 

[bell-rose16]

I really want that part of my heart back.

The part that loves curling up with a book and reading for hours,

The part that listens to loud music,

The part that giggles at stupid jokes.

I need it back now.

So that everytime I do those things,

I don’t think of you….

-ICS

[meetmebylexingtonandpark]

“And so it was literature that brought me back to life during this time.”

— Dr. Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

[cameronzferrer]

“The sun goes on fine without the moon.”

-“Remorse” Moonsun fanfic