February 2011
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
sea-tailor:
Omg this just made me...
January 2011
“Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to...”
– Kenzaburo Oe (birthday today)
“All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via goharius)
“Bastion looked at the book.
‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book...”
– Michael Ende (The Neverending Story)
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve...”
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road (via ontheroadquotes)
“Closing libraries is child abuse.”
– Alan Bennett (via cabbageandking)
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”
– Johnny Depp (via misswallflower)
“If you can’t write like New York, you have no business living in New York and...”
– James M. Cain (via theparisreview)
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay (via bookoasis)
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”
– J.M. Barrie (via kari-shma)