a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit
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Ashlee Bree. She/her. I do love nothing in the world so well as books - is not that strange?
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— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
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“It’s funny, but when I’m doing nothing, I get this feeling like I’m fighting something… It never goes away, even when I’m in bed, even when I’m walking around.”
— Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
#mieko kawakami#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#it was the best of queue. it was the worst of queue.
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“But here was the world, screeching its beauty at her day after day, and she felt grateful for it.”
— Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again
#elizabeth strout#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#there is no friend as loyal as a queue
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
#haruki murakami#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#there is no queue equal to tenderness of heart
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Next TBR Stack.
(This is me trying to read all the books I own!)
#book photography#bookish aesthetic#it's a bookworm life for me#paradise is a kind of library#it all ends in queue anyway
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JOMP BPC - 19th May - Newest Book
Bought this a couple of weeks ago and haven't started it yet, but Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit sounds like it might be perfect for me. I'll report back once I've read it!
#book photography#bookish aesthetic#it's a bookworm life for me#paradise is a kind of library#so many books. so little queue.
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Else Lasker-Schüler
#else lasker schuler#poetry#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#i carry your queue with me (i carry it in my queue)
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#persuasion#jane austen#classics#anne elliot#book things#paradise is a kind of library#we are all fools in love queue
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#sense and sensibility#jane austen#bookish memes#paradise is a kind of library#if i loved you less; i might be able to queue about it more
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Joy Sullivan, from "(Luck I)", Instructions for Traveling West
#joy sullivan#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#i like good strong queues that mean something
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lit characters as mythological figures ≡ nina zenik as aphrodite @sixofcrowsnet heist: mythology
nina just liked to flirt with everything.
#six of crows#leigh bardugo#favorite literary ladies#nina zenik#book things#paradise is a kind of library#queue is an arrow: it demands to land true
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John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats
#john keats#poetry#bookish quotes#paradise is a kind of library#in my younger and more vulnerable queue
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From From, Monica Youn
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make me choose: @polydeuce asked the raven cycle or shades of magic? @shadesofmagicnet essen tasch match one: get to know the members
there’s dull london, kell london, creepy london, and dead london. see? i’m a fast learner.
want one?
#shades of magic#v.e. scwab#fantasy#book things#paradise is a kind of library#i am not ruined queue. i am ruination.
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