#reading quote

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”

― J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France.

[wornoutspines]

Before You Dismantle, Understand

I've been re-watching A Discovery of Witches and that quote about Change requiring knowledge - knowing what you're challenging before you act still hits. #Wisdom #Reform #CriticalThinking #ADOW #QuoteOfTheDay

“Don’t tear down the establishment without finding out how it was built or understanding its principles.” – Ysabeau, A Discovery of Witches

Before You Dismantle, Understand

[blossominthewoods]

„It is not the land that is broken; it is our relationship to it.“

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, in Braiding Sweetgrass

[tetedump]

"The ocean needs all kinds of fish," Keedie says quietly. "Just like the world needs all kinds of mind. Just one would be really dull, wouldn't it?"

- A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicoll

[bartonsedai]

Because I know that no matter what, I am wonderful

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

[godzilla-reads]

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. —Gustave Flaubert

[aquotecollection]

That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.

Beach Read, Emily Henry