February 2012
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How did I not know that East of Eden was this good?! I would have read it years ago!
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“I’m just confused. Everything’s confusing. Everything beautiful is...”
– Bryan Lee O’Malley, Lost at Sea
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“Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could...”
– Bryan Lee O’Malley, Lost at Sea
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“Know what you will of the world. Know what you can, know what men are and the...”
– Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver
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“I know people think that druggies are really nothing but a bunch of losers. But...”
– Benjamin Alire Saenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“I want to gather up all the words in the world and
write them down on little...”
– Benjamin Alire Saenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
January 2012
16 posts
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“here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the...”
– e.e. cummings
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“‘Stories are wild creatures,’ the monster said. ‘When you let...”
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born...”
– Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
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“…she wasn’t reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn’t...”
– Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
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So I met Brian Herbert today and he gave me a copy of his new book, Sisterhood of Dune and signed it for me. Pretty awesome! =D
I’m also getting a signed copy of John Green’s new book, The Fault in Our Stars tomorrow, so I’m a happy camper!
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“Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than...”
– Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
December 2011
11 posts
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“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I...”
– David Levithan & Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
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“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart?...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
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“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain;...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“‘That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I...”
– L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz
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“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?…’I Wanna Hold Your...”
– David Levithan, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
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“Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we’ve broken up. It cheated...”
– David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
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“When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go....”
– Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean,...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
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November 2011
21 posts
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“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
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“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“It’s over between me and the world. Things have not gone very well between...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
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“Why do I read?
I just can’t help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to...”
– Gary Paulson, Shelf Life
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to...”
– Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides
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“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“(and I can understand because in me too the fire of destruction flares blood hot...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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I’ve been posting so much Plath, but I’m in the middle of her journals right now and just about everything she says seems to strike a chord with me. I adore her!