fuck yeah, literary quotes
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Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don’t have time. Or the right words. But that’s what books do. It’s as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. …But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white charges and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
Of course I loved books more than people.
