09•01•24// where I spend too much time
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Work from home (romanticised version)
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
— J.D. Salinger. (via. luciferifilia)
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"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."
-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
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“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
| The Secret History
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Loving you was like going to war.
I never came back the same.
-Warsan Shire
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16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere
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