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Finnish reader, bookcrosser and so much more.

[slipperbunny]

[thegirlwhocrieswolf]

Tell Me by Lang Leav

[mischievousbookfairy]

welcome to Booklr where we offer moral support for those who have experienced emotional pain due to a book but we also encourage each other to read a book that will cause even more emotional pain

[garricktavis]

“Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”

—The Diamond Eye, Kate Quinn

[slipperbunny]

[cephalopod-celabrator]

Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

[slipperbunny]

[terrypratchettparadise]

“WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.”

— Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

[parchmentfeather-deactivated202]

“I don’t know. How are you supposed to know. Why can’t God come down from the sky with a giant foam finger, point it at some bloke, and say, "That one, Evie, you’re supposed to fall in love with that one. He’s not a douche, I checked for you.”“

Holly Bourne // Am I Normal Yet

[observando]

“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn’t have any substance after all? Like when you’ve split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. “Plenty more fish in the sea,” they’ll say, or “You’re better off without them,” or “Do you want some of these potato chips?” They never really understand, because they haven’t been there, every day, every hour. They don’t know the way things have been, the way that it’s made you, the way it has structured your world. They’ll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don’t understand the history, the background, don’t know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don’t know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone’s alone in their world, because everybody’s life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”

— Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

[quotemadness]

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

— Roald Dahl

[slavicwitchling]

“Blessings be upon this house,’ said Granny, but in a voice that suggested that if blessings needed to be taken away, she could do that, too.”

Terry Pratchett “Wintesmith”

[quoted-books]

“Dear Anyone: This is a letter from one anyone to another anyone, no names required, because nobody really knows anyway. Names don’t make a hell of a lot of difference. The world is made up entirely of strangers. Millions and millions of them. Everyone is a stranger to everyone else. Sometimes we think we know other people, especially those we supposedly are close to, but if we really knew them, why are we so often surprised by the shit they do? Like, parents are always surprised by what their kids will do. They raise them from the time they are babies, spend each and every day with them, think they’re these goddamn fucking angels, and then one day the cops come to the door and say hey, guess what parents? Your kid just bashed some other kid’s head in with a baseball bat. Or you’re the kid, and you think things are pretty fucking OK, and then one day this guy who’s supposed to be your dad says so long, have a nice life. And you think, what the fuck is this? So years later, your mom ends up living with another guy, and he seems OK, but you think, when’s it coming? That’s what life is. Life is always asking yourself, when’s it coming? Because if it hasn’t come for a long time, you know you’re fucking due. All the best, Anyone”

— Linwood Barclay, No Time for Goodbye

[shitiunderline]

“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths you Can’t Avoid

[ablogforreaders]

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

[kattahj]

Peter Grant's magical apprenticeship

Peter Grant: I just saw a ghost.

Thomas Nightingale: Ah, yes, maybe then I should reveal to you that magic is real.

Peter Grant: Cool. How do you science it?

Thomas Nightingale: It's VERY COMPLICATED and you have to start with the basics or you risk doing horrible things to your brain.

Peter Grant: I hear you... but we can still science it, right?

Thomas Nightingale: Let's begin with making a ball of light.

Peter Grant: Holy shit, look at what happened to my cell phone!

Thomas Nightingale: Magic doesn't work well with technology.

Peter Grant: Interesting. Can we science that?

Thomas Nightingale: ABOUT THAT BALL OF LIGHT. You need to focus on the forma that will...

Peter Grant: Absolutely. Hold this for a moment, will you?

Thomas Nightingale: Yes. All right. Now, where was I... hang on, what are you doing?

Peter Grant: I'm just going to science this, hope you don't mind.

[beatrice-otter]

““Does this happen a lot?” Asked Caroline. “Nope,” I said. “Sometimes Beverly rescues me, sometimes Lady Ty, occasionally Molly–I think there’s a rota.” “Shit,” said Caroline. “You’re not joking, are you?” “Don’t be daft,” I said. “There isn’t really a rota–we’re not that well organised.””

— Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree