March 2012
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February 2012
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“‘If a lion could talk,’ I said happily, ‘we could not...”
– The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird. (via paperbackgirl)
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“The sad truth is that some things can’t go backwards. Once they start going...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via gelibean)
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“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak (Glory Story)
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Wonderful quote, especially coming from the author of The Book Thief.
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“She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them...”
– The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
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“Not long ago this room had been the centre of the house, a place brightened by...”
– The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on...”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
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Signs that you're a book lover... yet are still in...
bookaddict24-7:
1. If you keep buying books, even though you’ve got more than plenty at home to read.
2. If you’re constantly looking at book websites to see what others are reading and whether that one book that’s been on your mind is worth it.
3. If you occasionally insert an author/book reference into a conversation.
4. If you write, even if you’re going for or if you’re already in a...
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That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via doubledaybooks)
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You know you are a book nerd when...
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You have gotten so angry/mad/upset at a character that you have had to take a break to walk it off.
You get excited when you learn your favorite book is being made into a movie, but then realize that it will never be as good as the book.
You have verbally berated a character.
You realize your vocabulary is larger than most people.
You have read a book for so long, that when you...
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