#quotations

[culturevulturette]

“This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.” 

[typewriter-worries]

Like the sea, I shatter easily when touched by beauty

Like the Sea I Gather All the Shores, Gavin Yuan Gao

[lipikkawrites]

You are strong, even if you feel delicate. 🌹

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”

― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

[life-spire]

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[fairydrowning]

"In March I'll be rested, caught up and human."

– Sylvia Plath, from a letter to "Aurelia Plath" written c. February 1953

[mehblahblah]

Conversations that leave you smiling and with a warm heart>>>>>

[angeldoll04]

@9710144

[wedarkacademia]

when Nizar Qabbani said, "The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it" it hit me so damn hard

[grave-of-fireflies]

[gnossienne]

Anne Carson, Plainwater

[flashbulb-memory]

Actually, it is me sobbing.

[typewriter-worries]

Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

[placeforus]

I just want someone to give me a hug so tight that all my pieces will fit back together again

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.”

― Lev Grossman.

[life-spire]

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