Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the ground. You forget to even look at the night sky.
Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
(via murakamistuff)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting
Oshima, in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore (via crosswordinspirations)
Source: crosswordinspirations
Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends.
Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as “fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales.” And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day “advancements” we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question “Who designated myths and legends as unreality? ”
But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors “You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things” and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable.
Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.
C. JoyBell C. (via amandaonwriting)
Source: amandaonwriting
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.
Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love (via lifesomeday)
(via wwnorton)
Source: incisio
Not just beautiful though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing.
haruki murakami (via everchanger)
(via hungryreader)
Source: everchanger
Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In
Submitted by youaremypatronus.
(via teachingliteracy)
Source: aseaofquotes
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via excessivebookshelf)
Source: excessivebookshelf
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David Quammen (via prettybooks)
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Source: prettybooks
Source: amandaonwriting
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.” ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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