autumn🩷

[heartshapedbooks]

reading + annotating the ballad of songbirds and snakes so this will in fact b active once my annotations r done i will share sum of them

[ab-initioo]

- rebecca solnit

[violentdevotion]

what's the consensus on dog-earing books

[violentdevotion]

I just think that if anti dog-earers loved books as much as they claim to they'd know the greatest gift you can give one is leave the evidence its been read and loved within it

[heartshapedbooks]

""Okay, sure, fine," he says. "But like, we can't go around killing every rapist and baking them into pies?"

"Why not?" Mikayla twists around to glare at him. "You scared?"

Their classmates erupt into uneasy giggles and whoops."

IM SCREAMING I LOVE THIS INTERACTION

[heartshapedbooks]

"I almost think Wes is going to kiss me. But he doesn't. And that makes me like him even more."

- Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

[heartshapedbooks]

"... for continually reminding me books need plots and not just kissing and angst"

Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do acknowledgements.

screaming bc do they really? kissing and angst is all im here to read abt..

[heartshapedbooks]

"Izzy, under great duress, had finally agreed to come down to the beach- fully clothed, in her Doc Martens, and glowering."

me too izzy. me too.

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"But the hurt felt real- much more real than the entire afternoon of staying silent. So she lay on the hard wooden floor between her brothers' beds and let that ache fill her."

so beautiful. i hurt reading about her hurt. ouch.

[heartshapedbooks]

"maybe it'll feel amazing, like turning into glitter and then disappearing forever"

-We Were Promised Spotlights, Lindsay Sproul

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i spent $60 at the used book store the other day....

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"I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows"

-Adam Silvera, They Both Die At The End

[fuckingsadnes]

I wanna kiss and punch who did this video 💘💘

[heartshapedbooks]

i wanna read the subtle art of not giving a fuck really bad

[valexwest]

"He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance."

André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Toni Morrison, a Nobel Laurete, an icon of the literary world, and an elder in the womanisn movement has died at the age of 88. Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Morrison was an unfailing leader in the push for Black women narratives and wrote such classics as Song of Solomon, Sula, and Beloved, the latter of which earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Much can be said about the transformative power of her works, but I’d rather leave you with her own words right now:

“You can’t fly with regrets of yesterdays on your wings.

You can’t fly if you’re still in love with that ex that’s bad for you. Give that shit up!

You can’t fly if you’re afraid of standing up and taking power. Give that shit up!

You can’t fly if you’re spending the time you should be using to fly on other less important things. Give that shit up!

Focus on flying, if you wanna to fly. Because if you really wanna fly, nothing should be able to stop you. And if you’re not flying, realize something is. And lose that shit!”

Rest in Power, Toni Morrison. Thank you for the gift of your words and the beauty of your life.

[books-n-quotes]

“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”

— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John (via books-n-quotes)

[heartshapedbooks]

"Love isnt just blind. It's also totally stupid."

-Gordan Korman, Restart