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Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you’ve finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It’s both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole Broyard, About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, The New York Times (via bookmania)
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
Austin Kleon
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My library was – all libraries are – a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren’t binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
Helena Bonham Carter (via bird-madgirl)
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
Astrid Lindgren (via darkesttrip)
I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.
Virginia Woolf, from Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 (Mariner Books, 1992)
There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary (via books-n-quotes)