StarryEyes
18. Female. Love Reading, Writing, Piano, Antiques, Vintage, Theatre, Long walks and Letters, Colors(esp. the color emerald green), Chocolates, Marshmallows, Flowers, Kittens, Babies and Bubbles! My favourite tv series are Friends, Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl.
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes… My world began to expand very rapidly,… the reading habit had got me securely.
H. G. Wells (via amandaonwriting)
(via teachingliteracy)
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
John Dufresne (via stuck-betweenstations)
(via teachingliteracy)
(via nwela)
embracethismoment-weareeternal:
“fuck physics! I sits and eats.”
(Source: kittycatdaily, via world-on-her-shoulders)
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (via kari-shma)
(via quote-book)
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
Jeanette Winterson (The Powerbook)
(Source: booklover)
I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
George Orwell, Why I Write (via daisydandelions)
(Source: thepocketmouse, via booklover)
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Because every woman wants to be like you! <3
