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"When I wear tee-shirts, I can only wear V-necks because my neck is very fragile. I cannot wear a regular neck shirt. It hurts. I especially hate turtlenecks. Like, wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy. All damn day. Like, if you wear a turtleneck and a backpack, it's like a weak midget trying to bring you down."

Mitch Hedberg

The scent of summer: citronella

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This is perfect

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For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via quotemadness)

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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (via books-n-quotes)

On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This is our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

After that the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man waking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care all the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. In not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now- strange powers we're still getting used to... Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say, it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down around your eyes...

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

'Rosemary, why do you love books so much?' 'And I said, 'Well, I don't know.'.' She's animated, almost girlish now: 'I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.' She narrows her eyes. 'He watched me, and he didn't say a word. So then I said, 'Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.'

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

'Of course, the relationship between book and reader is private,' he says,...

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

Or else I'll be interned at the poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass of people who had neither the strength to triumph nor the power to turn their defeats into victories.

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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