“It fills me with great sadness that there are many books in the world that I would love but will never get to read.”
(via prettybooks)
…at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the greatest lie.
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| — | Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” (via quote-book) |
People who claim they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
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| — | Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (via libraryland) |
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.
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| — | Jodi Picoult (via kari-shma) |
It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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| — | The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) |
I think people still like to read.
We learned in 2007 that as hard as it is to make a video every other day, it’s even harder to live without text. And because books require a level of abstraction that images don’t, text based stories still offer a unique richness. No matter how good a “Paper Towns” movie might be - and I hope it’s awesome - it can’t be “like the book.” Nothing can be like a book except a book.
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| — | John Green (via rhua) |
