Confessions and fixations of a certified librophiliac.
“I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.”
— Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
— Christopher Morley
(via politics-war)
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
— William W. Purkey
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
— Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger
“Have you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
—John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Old books exert a strange fascination for me — their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
—Lauren Willig
