I hated school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Stephen King (via deth) (Source: saddest-summer) |
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic”
-Carl Sagan
Twilight fails to teach us to examine each other complexly. That is why it is so worrying as a popular book.
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(paraphrased from blogtv) John Green [submitted by cherry-cheeks] Exactly. Which is why I love “Paper Towns” so much more than those vampire books. It’s also why after reading “Twilight,” I was determined to develop my main characters as differently from Edward and Bella as possible. |
My last tour,” she said quickly, her eyes shining. “Quite peculiar, really, to know I won’t see this house again.”
“You could come back for a visit,” William said.
“It would be too hard. Certain places you must never return to.
“You could come back for a visit,” William said.
“It would be too hard. Certain places you must never return to.
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| — | Elizabeth Winthrop, “The Castle in the Attic” |
The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.
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— Michael Upchurch (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover) My parents are moving to Washington State & got rid of most of their stuff. I would not, however, allow them to get rid of their books. So now I have a bookshelf full of books I read as a kid (& teenager). Which means I won’t have to visit Half Price Books anytime soon. It’s time for me to so some rereading. Right now, I’m working on Asimov’s “Foundation.” |
I love the feeling you get when you begin a new book. Suddenly, the world seems full of possibility.
teachingliteracy:(via dreamtastic)
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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Jim Bishop (via cinderellainrubbershoes) (via leavemethismess) (via bugseatbooks) (via booklover) And I know that power all too well. |
