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I think I just died 7 times over 

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

Quentin Jacobsen, Paper Towns (via dreamguide)

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"She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again."

Glenda Millard, from A Small Free Kiss in the Dark (Holiday House, 2010)
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief."

Franz Kafka (via letfthemisphere)

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Devon Pearse, A Lighter Shade of Gray

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"I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time."

Marilynne Robinson - By the Book - NYTimes.com

She chose “Ishmael” as her “if you could meet any character;” as if I could adore her more!

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"As a writer, you’re always something of a vandal. You’re a tomb raider. You’re gonna go in there and take the things that already exist - drag ‘em out again, and dress them up differently. There is a sense in which you are a thief. It’s no wonder that writers are ruled by Mercury, god of thieves and liars, and Mercury of the double tongue. There is the sense in which you will always steal, and take for yourself, the things that you need. But then you also bring them back into the light. You dust them down, and then you put them out again for people to find in a different way. The whole thing about myths is that they need to stay fluid, they need to keep moving, and they need to be dynamic. And that’s why we can go on retelling them, so that, what is valuable is passed on from generation to generation, across time, through cultures."

Jeanette Winterson (via austinkleon)

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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. [And you think when you cease to be at peace with silence.]"

Khalil Gibran (via lazyyogi)

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