[ssilviasilvia]

You know what's unnecessarily embarrassing? When a fly lands on your food.

[ssilviasilvia]

"Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for Knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless Happiness innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain." - This Boy's Life/ Tobias Wolff

[ssilviasilvia]

"His youth is doing little for him, except robbing him of the right to suffer. Pain, he has come to realize, is the domain of the elders, their suffering always more noble and more justified than that of a boy like him, who is expected to find thrills in his new environment and to lock his short past in the cellar, only to retrieve it, years later, like a bottle of wine, and share it in brief sips with dinner guests." -The Septembers of Shiraz/Dalia Sofer

[ssilviasilvia]

"'If the legislature at Harrisburg should awaken, to-morrow morning, and find each man's skin turned black and his hair woolly, what could they do to remove prejudice? 'Immediately pass laws entitling black men to all civil, political, and social privileges, ' was the instant reply and the questioning ceased. " -My Bondage and My Freedom/ Frederick Douglass

[ssilviasilvia]

"In the teeth of unequal chances, he must prove himself equal to the mass of those who oppress him..."

My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglas

[hamyilton]

is this hamilton

[ssilviasilvia]

" 'It's raining already.' In fact it was, the endless warm drizzle of spring- the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it."-The Lathe Of Heaven-Ursula Le Guin

[ssilviasilvia]

"Rain was an old Portland tradition, but the warmth- 70°F. On the second of March- was modern, a result of air pollution. " -The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

[emeraldcityadventures]

This was the friendliest bookstore cat I’ve ever met

[melissaadelrey]

[thenatsdorf]

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[thelibrariansaid]

Has anyone seen Neil Gaiman’s private library? I mean… come on…

[bookmania]

Belgian bookshop (Photo by: ShoKan ZHONG)

[ssilviasilvia]

One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with”; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

Walden-Henry David Thoreau

[manthadoodle]

“[The] English daisy (Bellis perennis) symbolizes innocence.” 

[animated-disney-gifs]

[stuff-from-web]

If you own a cat you know the feeling