certified fangirl

read, sleep, repeat

[the-forest-library]

[macrolit]

from macrolit.books

[bookaddict24-7]

“A reading major, that’s what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”

— The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 

[or1ncandenza]

[spellofaspine]

hal is a gemini pass it on

[heckyeahmovie]

It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false… and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it’s all a delusion and you’re so much better than everybody ‘cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you’re so much worse because you can’t fucking function. - The End of the Tour (2015)

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

[bibliophile]

[sydneyrae]

“It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

[macrolit]

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

— Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?” - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“There might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.” - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

[veemignon]

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t so so out of quote 'hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don’t!’ and 'Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

— David Foster Wallace, from Infinite Jest

[heavensghost]

David Foster Wallace

Painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska

[sunsetquotes]

“Sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and hurt.”

— David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest

[spellofaspine]

current literary crush: michael pemulis

also i want to be hal incandenza’s best friend 😭

[pagebypagepoetry]

The Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI 🏛

[sjmsstuff]

ATTENTION

the world of throne of glass is being released on the 9th of September, 2019. It will be told from the point of view of a librarian in Terrasen and contain events from 10 years after Kingdom of Ash. Cover reveal coming soon.