October 2010
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even though....
even though i’m amongst the ghetto here at this library….
i had forgotten how good it feels to learn something new and beautiful. how your mind is now opening in a way that could only be achieved by reading. i’m going to chase this feeling for the rest of my life.
….except without the ghetto people that are here.
September 2010
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“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via selfmonument)
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a...”
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith
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“You tasted it. Isn’t that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste?...”
– The Dying Animal, Philip Roth (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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love’s theme-love unlimited orchestra
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“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and...”
– War for the Oaks, Emma Bull (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love...”
– The Dying Animal, Philip Roth (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Le sigh
You know that feeling you get right before you take the first plunge on a roller coaster? How your heart is beating so fast and loud that you’ve zoned everything else out and can only focus on the fall that’s about to happen. Will you scream with excitement and adrenaline rush or will this make your stomach feel like heaving?
That’s exactly how I feel constantly about my...
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