#bookish quote

[bookaddict24-7]

“I’ve always felt safe in bookshops. It’s as though the stories inside them can rescue me from myself and the rest of the world.”

― I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

[readingthroughtheapocalypse]

“Books changed me and I think that they are, more than anything else, one of the best tools we can use to learn, reflect on, and truly understand the world we are living in. They are a bridge between languages, continents, and people. A book will accompany you and will stay with you, it will mark you like nothing else. You will go back to it, quote it, argue about it. You will borrow one and lend one. The written word, in my opinion, is therefore more effective and long lasting than the spoken one as a tool for change.”

- Frank Barat, in the Introduction to ‘On Palestine’ by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

[psalmieee]

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

[lone-nyctophile]

Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.

- Jennifer Huang

[readsunshine]

I'm almost never angry but all the hurt I've bottled inside me make me look like I'm someone with rage.

[juliaxyn]

surviving on caffeine and novels. ...

[figtreeforever]

Dostoevsky, The Idiot

Caspar David Friedrich, Gartenterrasse, 1811

(Collage: instagram @emmalinatotes)

[hotsauceintheebag]

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

Eric, Terry Prachett

[maiarosa]

[its0you]

[thvmuse]

Fictional men who have the "it's ok to murder but it's never ok to disrespect your wife" energy >>>>

[bookaddict24-7]

"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

―Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani

[questsbetweencovers]

"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

[deadlypoetacademia]

I am just a simple girl, take me to a bookstore and I will tell you about each book I have read, about my tbr, about the genres, and will probably give you 100+ recommendations even if you haven't asked for.

[y2kaee]

"I was looked at,

but I wasn't seen."

Albert Camus, The misunderstanding.

[readsunshine]

Sometimes you realise it much later that it wasn't you who wasn't enough, they just needed something entirely different in life.