PonderingsandWanderings

Curiouser and curiouser

[keepingeunoia]

At the NSW State Library Sydney

[equal-and-free]

This week David Cameron unveiled the Conservative Party’s tough new stance against Europe in a bid to win back many of the anti-Europe voters who voted Ukip in May’s national elections. Finally, after frustrations with the organisation of the EU had been boiling under the surface of our...

[keepingeunoia]

Important.

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Books With Little/No Romance - Recommendations

Earlier, I asked you guys for recommendations on books that don’t particularly feature romance or romance is only a minor element of the story. I thought that I’d share your recommendations and contribute a few of my own for the people also interested in a post that’s easier for us to view. Obviously these books will differ in how they handle romance, but generally it’s not a very prominent theme.

So if, like me, you’re not necessarily a big romance fan then be sure to check these books out! If you have any other recommendations, let me know and I’ll add them to the post.

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[keepingeunoia]

From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.”

J.K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[larmoyante]

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (via weliveandbreathewords)

[keepingeunoia]

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

[keepingeunoia]

Waking up after last night in town....

[artruby]

Studio Drift, Dandelight.

[hellanne]

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

(via poetisch)

Truth

[briennesjaime]

[keepingeunoia]

Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.

                                                                        - Daenerys Targaryen

asoiaf/got meme » seven quotes [3/7]  » for wolvesorlions

Hollaaaaa

[keepingeunoia]

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris (1868)

[keepingeunoia]

What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shudder… over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.”

― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

[collectinqwords-blog]

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (via collectinqwords)

[keepingeunoia]

In his life so far he had only known the kind of doubt that is calculated and secure. He had known only suspicion, cynicism, probability - never the fearful unraveling that comes when one ceases to trust in one's own trusting power; never the dread panic that follows this unraveling; never the dull void that follows last of all.

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

[keepingeunoia]

Humans are the worst.

[keepingeunoia]

Heartache is not wanting to be alive but not wanting to die and leave him alone in a world without you, without a chance.

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[thebaconsandwichofregret]

i want to force like 75% of male nerddom to watch this conversation

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