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A blog dedicated to the journeys that we take with characters, and the mysteries and adventures that we live through books.
A blog dedicated to the journeys that we take with characters, and the mysteries and adventures that we live through books.
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as an Artist (via pavorst)
#lit
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#oscar wilde
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons (via samaralex)
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"She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights."
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via fissionaccomplished)
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"At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough, and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey."
Lemony Snicket (via rutilanthearts)
#lit
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#lemony snicket
(Source: withinshadowandsoul)
"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village."
Matilda (Roald Dahl)
#matilda
#roald dahl
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(via libraryland)
"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? … 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."
Franz Kafka
#franz kafka
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"I learned it at just twenty-one or twenty-two… at an age when most guys are starting only to suspect the basics of adulthood - that life owes you nothing; that suffering takes many forms; that no one will ever care for you as your mother did; that the human heart is a chump."
David Foster Wallace (The Pale King)
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#David Foster Wallace
#The Pale King
(Source: seventyfourspecies)
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
#the road
#cormac mccarthy
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"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
G.K. Chesterton
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