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herigo · 4 months

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bookaddict24-7 · 7 months

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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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ijustkindalikebooks · 4 months

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“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.”

― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed.

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ivynightshade · 3 months

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i can’t be loved, swallowed or digested. must i make myself smaller?’

[text id: this thought was unceasing: somewhere must be home. / the spine-folding need to belong was woven into my skin. no amount of clawing could ever get it out. / it scared me that even at my very best, i wouldn’t be able to stop myself from being fond of the tearing. isn't mauling touch? the warmth of a hand close to you, right before is tears you apart, is something.]

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tanked-up · 4 months

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Ghost while texting: Fuckin hate him so much

Gaz: Who…?

Ghost scoffs still texting: The Mohawk Dude with the funny accent!

Gaz: The sergeant who flipped you?

Ghost: Yeah! He somehow found my number and won’t stop spamming me with Mirror pics

Gaz: Well, that’s weird… how could he have a hold of your phone number…?

Ghost: No idea, but imma find the fucker who gave it to him

Gaz mumbles: Well good luck…

Price hearing the entire conversation: Who gave you permission to give him the number?

Gaz whispering: Listen, The man was practically begging for it!

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(Five months later)

Ghost: Fuckin idiot

Gaz: What now

Ghost: Johnny’s been sending mirror pics the whole fuckin day

Gaz: Oh to be in love

Ghost scoffs: In love, right

Gaz: Oh sorry, “colleagues who’s been sending each other mirror pics as a hobby for over a year now”

Recruit hearing the conversation: …

Ghost lets an uncomfortable laugh: He’s joking! Just jokin…

Ghost whispers: If you tell a word I will leak your fuckin diary.

Gaz: YOU READ MY DIARY!?

Ghost: I can read your fuckin mind, shithead

#Gaz just couldn’t refuse:/#Ghost can read minds #true #ghostsoap #call of duty #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #cod modern warfare #ghost mw2 #captain john price #simon riley #john price #gaz mw2 #cod meme #incorrect cod quotes #incorrect quotations

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"When you are washing the dishes, washing the dishes must be the most important thing in your life. Just as when you are drinking tea, drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world revolves— slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life."

– Thich Nhat Hanh

#enjoy you weekend and live in every moment either it's just reading your favorite book or just a simple conversation with anyone #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #books & libraries #romanticism #classic literature #book quotes #literature quotes #quotations #words

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ardent-reflections · 9 months

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I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.

Rebecca Solnit

#rebecca solnit #literature #spilled thoughts #poetry #poems and quotes #words #poem #quotes #lit #literacy #quotations #quote #books and literature #books and reading #books #escape #coping

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orca-soup · 1 year

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I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis

#lit #words #grief #literary #quotes #writing #literature #quotation #loss #sorrow #reading #despair #angst #books #regret #anger #dark academia #cs lewis

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wethepoems · 4 months

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sulasnsleep · 8 months

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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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“I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

#quotes #bibliophile #read #books #reads #reading #book #book quotes #quote #book quotations #book quote #book quotation #ray bradbury #fahrenheit 451 #dystopian #dystopia

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frenchnewwaves · 4 months

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Normal People

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bookaddict24-7 · 5 months

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"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."

--John Waters

(I will say, that in this economy, feel free to just treat this as a pretty quote.)

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ijustkindalikebooks · 20 days

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“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien.

#booklr #books #bookblr #fiction #book #quotes #book quotes #quotations #quote #book quote #j rr tolkien #j r r tolkien #reading #jrr tolkien #tolkien #tolkein #lord of the rings #middle earth

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thelordofgifs · 6 months

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gnashing my teeth about "Maglor is delusional and trying to write himself a redemption arc" takes ngl. he's just. he's SO self-aware. "his heart was sick and weary with the burden of the dreadful oath"!! he says Eärendil's Silmaril is "secure from all evil"!! and then points out that "less evil will we do in the breaking"!! the idea that Maglor is under the delusion that he is a good person is directly contradicted by the text and I will die on this hill actually.

#silmarillion #meta #my meta #maglor #I DID type up a longer post with quotations from canon and the relevant bits aggressively bolded #but decided that was perhaps an overkill response to reading a Wrong Fic #(it was EXTREMELY wrong tho)

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thatbookmate · 6 months

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Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives-or to find strength in a very long one.

V. E. SCHWAB

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