Story Escape

My escape from reality into the world in ink, and some of my favorite quotes and ramblings that escape 📚😍📖😁👍🏻

[books-n-quotes]

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

— Christopher Paolini, Eragon

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“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…”

— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via books-n-quotes)

[onlyabookadaytokeeprealityaway]

Attacks and counterattacks, binds and blockades, feints and ripostes followed as the sisters vied to win. Beneath the canopy of night, into the clear light of morning, the brightness of daytime, and the softly falling dusk, the hours passed. From long, long ago to forevermore, Love and Death played on.

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"Home is all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love. You carry it wherever you go. Don't you know that?"

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"Don't you think a bit of balance is needed? An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story." "But what if you don't like your story? What then?"

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"You're playing by the rule of Three... named for the three Fates, the first of whom holds the spool upon which the thread of life is wound; the second, who pulls that thread; and the third, who snips it."

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"My life changed forever. All because of a single rose. I want you to tell me why." "Roses have thorns, and thorns leave wounds." "Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out." "For some, perhaps."

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"Sometimes words alone were not enough, because they spoke only to the head. But a story, one in which the words were strung together as beautifully as pearls on a necklace... that would speak to the heart."

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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"Death wins only if you let her." "I cannot bestow life. I am not god." "Life is fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever."

'Lost in a Book' by Jennifer Donnelly

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Look at me.. Belle could never love me. She could only ever pity me.” “That is not true, Love—real love—sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes.

‘Lost in a Book’ by Jennifer Donnelly

[books-n-quotes]

Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via books-n-quotes)

[disneywalt]

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Me when I finish reading a good book

Me: NOOO!!! It can't end that way!!

Me: WHY!!!!!!

Me: I don't know what to do with my life anymore

Me: *is an emotional wreck*

Me to a friend: Here read this book

[foreverlostinliterature]

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[forursmiles]

Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne (via forursmiles)