ahobbitsoul

[ahobbitsoul]

I like to organize my bookshelves by a system I call “wherever the fuck I can fit it in.”

[ahobbitsoul]

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them–with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Eudora Welty (b. on this day–13 April–in 1909)

[ahobbitsoul]

I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.

Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed  (via wordsnquotes)

[ahobbitsoul]

I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself

Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

But let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind us.

Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

Sometimes it’s better not to look back.

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

We cling to our fairytales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

…I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both

Elie Wiesel, Night (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Elie Wiesel, Night (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

Elie Wiesel (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything’s different.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently…When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via theliteraryjournals)

[ahobbitsoul]

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (via theliteraryjournals)