July 2012
132 posts
“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like...”
– Neil Gaiman (via thebooknookers)
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“The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not...”
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
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A Paradise of Strangers: The Bereavement of Words →
aparidiseofstrangers:
I’ll leave you to your ivory tower
surrounded by your books
drowning in the ink
of a thousand unwritten pages
that flows about the floor.
Your letters wilt in your hand
the A aboished, its pieces melting
in B’s primordial bog
You can’t tame them anymore
now bereft of your muse.
…
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via pavorst) 