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he's a ten but he re-reads The Secret History at the start of every academic year to "set the tone"

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this one really gets me bestie

(meditations in an emergency, cameron awkward-rich)

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As an introvert staying inside hasn't been that much of a problem. I'm rather enjoying all the extra reading time. However I find that I am genuinely missing one of my favourite places in the city. This tiny bookshop in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. They have a cat that occupies a chair and sleeps all day, ignoring the customers and a dog that likes to greet the customers eagerly.

I've been on a self imposed book buying ban this year which means I haven't visited this place since last December which is an absolute shame! The first thing I'm going to do once normal life commences is go there and pet the cat! And the dog. And talk to the bookseller on whom I may or may not have a tiny crush.

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“We read to know we’re not alone.” - William Nicholson, Shadowlands

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Little Pippin showing me so much love. The tiny new leaf has new growth 🥺

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Meet Robert. Robert Plant.

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No editing necessary for this kind of light 🖤

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loft Life

© Design Milk

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The sculptures ‘overflow’ in Musée La Piscine in Roubaix

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Achilles for the entire Trojan War :

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By: Isma | iharvera

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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”

Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

James Baldwin, Life Magazine (May 24, 1963)

“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”

George Saunders, O Magazine (2014)

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo

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1) Tennessee Williams, 2) Emmanuel Carnevali, 3) Alan Bennett, 4) Alix Beeston, 5) T.S. Eliot, 6) Diane Setterfield

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Book love.

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