"I dreamed you were a cosmonaut of the space between our chairs and I was a cartographer of the tangles in your hair."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
— Helen Keller (via littlemiss) (via quirkyme)
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
bandages: sarahstilwell: ohmandabear: madamezucker: thesoundingbored: (via suzywire)
for when I quote a book in daily conversation and folks are like WHA?!
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
— Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
(via booktumbling)
(via booktumbling)
deadgirls: dix-neuf: openarms:
At the library (via mirabilisjalapa2000)
"There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain
British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England
Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
"When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
— Christopher Morley (via bookshelves)
"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."
— Anthony J. D’Angelo (via bookshelves)
Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinets
"There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough."
— Irwin Shaw (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via kissmytoes) (via merricat) (via oneshouldreadeverything) (via libraryland)
"Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare."
— Japanese proverb (via my Honest Tea bottle) (via tweexcore)
Prove It, by Jennifer Khoshbin.
Discovered via NotCot.
How many can you recognize without looking at the book title?
"We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren’t on our lists, people we’ve never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) (via sawdustess) (via softcoredays) (via out-of-my-dreams)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
— Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (via keepmehonest) (via rosetintedworld)
