I’m in a John Steinbeck reading mood with no money to purchase any new novels and no way of borrowing from the library for at least another week.
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Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via kelsobrien)
pronunciation | \ar-‘kA-dE-an\
A clear path from where you are to where you want to be on a friday.
(Source: firstbook, via teachmehowtolive)
Suspended Books Magically Fill Swiss Tunnel
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via usuallycrazy)
(Source: appoggiaturas, via usuallycrazy)
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic”
-Carl Sagan
(via hungry-for-books)
