The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne…”

“The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne…”

(Source: ughustuswaters, via bookwormshaven)

ethertune:

Naka-Meguro riverside (By kozyndan)

ethertune:

Naka-Meguro riverside (By kozyndan)

(via burning-soul)

The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation. A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

Kafka

quotesfromfiction:

PLEASE REBLOG/LIKE THIS POST IF YOU’RE A BOOK BLOG

I get tons and tons of requests to be added to my book blog link list (which I updated hugely today).  I try my best to consistently add book blogs as I find them and/or are directed to them, but MAN there are a lot of us!  So please, please reblog/like this so I can do my best to both catalogue and follow (I follow with my personal blog, hangonsilvergirl) all the blogs in our little neck of the Tumblr woods.  If you don’t have a book blog list on your own Tumblr but would like to direct people, feel free to use mine as a master list of sorts; you’re welcome to save or direct link the pre-made banners posted above (click on the photo and you should be able to copy and paste the link into your browser).

I’m also happy to link to/share book blogs and vlogs outside of Tumblr!  Pop a note in my ask box and we can go from there. :)

Thank you!

(via fikzio)

petit-poids:

Tom Bagshaw - Pandora
bohemea:

Carey Mulligan - Bazaar UK by Tom Allen, June 2013

So beautiful!

bohemea:

Carey Mulligan - Bazaar UK by Tom Allen, June 2013

So beautiful!

Liquor is the thin white coat of paint
you wash over the cracks in your foundation.
Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours.
Sometimes even days.

Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth

It is this, that ever since I have seen you, I know not why, you have taken a place in my life; that, if I drive the thought of you out of my mind, it always comes back; that when I met you today, after not having seen you for two years, you made a deeper impression on my heart than ever; that, now that you have let me come to see you, now that I know you, now that I know all that is strange in you, you have become a necessity of my life, and you will drive me mad, not only if you will not love me, but if you will not let me love you.

Alexandre Dumas, Camille

You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly.

Julian Barnes, Levels of Life