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[originalbookporn-deactivated201]

There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

— Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin and Pugachev (1937)

[1nverse]

[bookmania]

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[agoodnight]

[shadowofafeeling]

Love breaks my bones and I laugh.

Charles Bukowski

[rulesofthirds]

[bookporn]

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Henry Miller

[thelifeofabookjunky-blog]

[jonathonwebb-deactivated2014032]

Reading is more important to me than eating.

- John Piper

[waltzaround]

Kentucky is so underrated.

[bookporn]

[beatlesneveroutofstyle]

[larmoyante]

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

David Lynch

[lustik]

[nightswimming]

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too – a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm. I know that from the chilly nights on the doorstep.

Jeanette Winterson

[mortisia]

[waltzaround]

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