#reading quote

[readerupdated]

Inspiring book and library quotes visualized to show the magic of books: the beauty of a paper texture, the style of a printed word, and the touch of a vintage look.

(via A new set of inspiring book and library quotes)

[tetedump]

"The ocean needs all kinds of fish," Keedie says quietly. "Just like the world needs all kinds of mind. Just one would be really dull, wouldn't it?"

- A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicoll

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[wornoutspines]

Empowerment Amid Doubt

Sheena Jolie's words in 'Love Springs Eternal' inspire us to own our achievements. #BookQuotes @WriterSJHimes💪 #Empowerment #SelfBelief #QuoteOfTheDay I love that quote⬇️

“Do not let doubt rob you of your belief in your accomplishments.” – Sheena Jolie (SJ Himes), Love Spring Eternal

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own [originally published 1929]

[herigo]

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[lucidloving]

Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

[lone-nyctophile]

~ Whitney Hanson

[academia-lucifer]

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

— J.D. Salinger.

[tetedump]

what it means to be awake in American bones—with or without citizenship—aching, toxic, and underpaid.

- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

[skylark-234]

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

[wornoutspines]

Speech and Scrutiny

Chugong's #SoloLeveling is as far as I can tell mostly praise for its pulse pounding action but they are amazing #quotes like this one ⬇️ to be found. #QuoteOfTheDay

“If there were 5 mouths, there were also 10 eyes, meaning the more people talked about him the more eyes they’d be on him.” – Chugong, Solo Leveling Volume 1.

[girlfictions]

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.