Noticing what you notice

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.” Lemony Snicket  (via paperlover)

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“Lending a book to a friend always seems like a wonderful idea. You get to feel like a magnanimous literary Yenta and your friend enjoys the privilege of reading the free book that you carefully selected just for her.

But there is a dark side. I’m all too familiar with that moment when I accept a book I’d lent out and discover that it doesn’t look anything like it did when I last held it. Rips, spills, broken bindings; many are the mishaps that can befall a borrowed book. I understand that creases are a part of life, but when I lend you one of my books, I am trusting you to care for it as if it were your own.

The uncertainty ends today.” Contract for Potential Book Borrowers (via bookriot)

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“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission.” Warsan Shire (via cannibalesqueappetite)

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“For a well-rounded education, you could try curling up with good books and bad librarians.” Richard Needham (via kthcswll)

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“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (via likeafieldmouse)

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“‘Am I happy?’ is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer,” David Foster Wallace, ‘Good Old Neon’ from ‘Oblivion’ (via lolas-livin)

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“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.” Warsan Shire (via youngfolksociety)

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“You can shed the past. You can’t shake it, but you can certainly get new skin. You can grow old and become stronger.” Lesra Martin (via simplyaboveaverage)

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“Now that my house has burned down, I have a better view of the sky.” Zen Saying (via jinsei)

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