February 2012
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Sudden Light
eating-poetry: I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow’s soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time’s...
Feb 8th
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“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or...”
– Edith Wharton May your day be mirthful as we celebrate Edith Wharton’s birthday! Looking for one of her classics? We’ve got them right here! (via nypl)
Jan 24th
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Using Pinterest as a visionboard for writing your... →
paperbackgirl: I love this.
Jan 24th
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How To Get Over Your Mid-Winter Reading Slump →
Jan 18th
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December 2011
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Dec 28th
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Dec 19th
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“This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people’s responses....”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via cee-ehs)
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 10th
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November 2011
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“You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I’d supported a human....”
– The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Nov 30th
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Nov 27th
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“The ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (via bibliophibious)
Nov 27th
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Nov 13th
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“My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at...”
– Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
Nov 8th
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“I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico...”
– David Leavitt, While England Sleeps
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
October 2011
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“The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Oct 22nd
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“He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn’t like it. The word, I mean....”
– Mary Renault, The Charioteer
Oct 22nd
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“Life is a barter of choice and consequences.”
– Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After
Oct 22nd
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Oct 19th
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“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt...”
– Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After
Oct 12th
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September 2011
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“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a...”
– Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Sep 25th
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“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all,...”
– Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Sep 25th
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It's Banned Books Week!
fuckyeahreading: Go and read the banned books on these lists and show the authority what’s what!
Sep 24th
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“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Sep 24th
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The Night Circus Playlist (Spotify) →
A playlist put together by the author Erin Morgenstern for the book The Night Circus.
Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Sep 20th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 9th
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“You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.”
– E.M. Forster (Maurice)
Sep 4th
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Sep 2nd
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“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an...”
– E.M. Forster (Maurice)
Sep 2nd
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August 2011
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“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
– Doris Lessing (Under My Skin)
Aug 14th
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July 2011
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know...”
– Emily Dickinson
Jul 10th
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“There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster,...”
– Kate Morton (The Distant Hours)
Jul 10th
June 2011
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“I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than...”
– Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution (via thecommonraven)
Jun 26th
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The 10 Most Powerful Women Authors →
Jun 7th
May 2011
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May 18th
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May 14th
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May 12th
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May 7th
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“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened...”
– David Mitchell (Black Swan Green)
May 5th
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“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts—absolute gifts—which...”
– The Awakening by Kate Chopin (via bookmania)
May 4th
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May 2nd
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“…words have been all my life, all my life—this need is like the...”
– A.S. Byatt (Possession)
May 2nd
April 2011
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“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my...”
– To the Lighthouse  by Virginia Woolf Submitted by calculatedexcellence (via novellastsentences)
Apr 27th
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“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it...”
– Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
Apr 25th
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