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The Book Thief

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:20:51 -0400

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak has already made me cry once and I am not even halfway done with the book. It is so well written and the story is heartbreaking.

capelesscrusader: last person//jenny owen youngs I have...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:35:39 -0400

capelesscrusader:

last person//jenny owen youngs

I have decided that this is my new anthem.

“What’s the worst thing that could happen? We find out that we don’t quite fit. But on the flipside we could be just right, and sure there’s the chance that we’ll both end up broken and split. But that’s my kind of risk.”

This is so lovely. I can’t wait to see them again in...

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:15:52 -0400

This is so lovely. I can’t wait to see them again in August.

"I lean in this time, and she doesn’t turn away. It’s cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet,..."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:50:17 -0400

“I lean in this time, and she doesn’t turn away. It’s cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. I can’t touch her face, even though I want to, because I’m wearing gloves. But God, when her lips come apart, everything turns warm and her sugar sweet breath is in my mouth, and I probably taste like hot dogs but I don’t care. She kisses like sweet devouring, and I don’t know where to touch her because I want all of her. I want to touch her knees and her hips and her stomach and her back and her everything, but we’re encased in all these clothes, so we’re just two marshmellows bumping against each other, and she smiles at me while still kissing because she knows how ridiculous it is, too. … I’ve never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.”

- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (via julziez)

John Green love all day everyday.

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:33:08 -0400

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.”

- Rene Descartes (via readingisforlovers)

"Blemish. noun. -The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your..."

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:30:36 -0400

““Blemish. noun.
-The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your knee. The dot below your shoulder that must have been from when you had chicken pox in third grade. The scratch on your neck-did I do that? This brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfied to read.””

- David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary

vitrolafm: The Decemberists - June Hymn Happy June!

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:26:55 -0400

vitrolafm:

The Decemberists - June Hymn

Happy June!

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Sun, 08 May 2011 19:30:53 -0400

"Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they..."

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:44:00 -0400

“Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger. You need resources to prevent your mind from becoming narrower and more routinized in later life. This is your chance to get them.”

- The New York Times gets it. (via unicornology)

fuckyeahcolinmeloy: Ahhhh I want to see Hank so badly. I bet...

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:39:15 -0400

fuckyeahcolinmeloy:

Ahhhh I want to see Hank so badly. I bet he’s so precious!

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Sun, 08 May 2011 18:38:43 -0400

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Sun, 08 May 2011 18:34:57 -0400

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amandamello: thediamondmind: Hair-Portraits of the presidents....

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:33:53 -0400

amandamello:

thediamondmind:

Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

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myparentswereawesome: Chuck and Kris Submitted by Rebecca

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:31:24 -0400

myparentswereawesome:

Chuck and Kris

Submitted by Rebecca

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Sun, 08 May 2011 18:29:18 -0400

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wafflesfordinner-: dally: littleteaspoon: Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you...

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:27:49 -0400

wafflesfordinner-:

dally:

littleteaspoon:

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think: I’m not going to make it, I just can’t do it today. I’m too tired, too emotional, too worn out, too run down and feel like a complete and utter miserable wreck. But you laugh inside as you drag your sorry self to the kitchen for some coffee; remembering all the times you’ve felt that way and still made it through.

"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without..."

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:26:48 -0400

“My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.”

- Pete Golkin (via libraryland) (via booklover) (via myjedilightsaber)

"How did they command such deference—English teachers? Compared to the men who taught physics or..."

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:26:06 -0400

“How did they command such deference—English teachers? Compared to the men who taught physics or biology, what did they really know of the world? It seemed to me, and not only to me, that they knew exactly what was most worth knowing. Unlike our math and science teachers, who modestly stuck to their subjects, they tended to be polymaths. Adept as they were at dissection, they would never leave a poem or a novel strewn about in pieces like some butchered frog reeking of formaldehyde. They’d stitch it back together with history and psychology, philosophy, religion, and even, on occasion, science. Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.”

- Tobias Wolff, Old School (via scout)

"No matter how upside-down it all may temporarily appear, we will have no fear because we know this..."

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:25:20 -0400

“No matter how upside-down it all may temporarily appear, we will have no fear because we know this secret: Life is crazily in love with us—wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.”

- Rob Brezny (via scout)

scout: click through.

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:24:18 -0400

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