"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and people."
— Jennifer Donnelly, A Nothern Light (via savethepage)
(Source: nikolaiidelphiki, via fewmorepages)
Inspirational people: J.K. Rowling
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you’ve lived so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all.”“
So as you all might have seen, I have been watching BSG this summer and loving it. This show has the unusual distinction to be the only TV show to actually make me want to change things about myself or my life in the way that reading good books inspires me to do so. And I read this quote about stripping away the inessential and I keep going back to BSG because that is what so many of characters end up doing - stripping off what doesn’t work and holds them back and rising again into something greater and stronger. And it’s not always a change for the better - but whatever they become, they go on to do things they never imagined they had the ability to carry out. And…yeah. In short - the idea of stripping off what doesn’t work is very appealing to me.
(via minuiko)
"Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver."
— Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via le-fay)
(Source: sharkyteeth, via atransparenteyeball)
"Human eyes are only made to see one version of reality at a time."
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (via neilgaiman)
(Source: jenintheskywithdiamonds, via teachingliteracy)
"This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game hinges on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and splutter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught."
— Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (via readmyjam)
(Source: shambling-after)
I should have known tonight’s watch would kiss the mule’s bum when Sergeant Ahuda stopped me after baton training. -Beka, Bloodhound
Excellent opening line.
(Source: fytortall, via songofthelioness)
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
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Ray Bradbury (via perhapsamongthestars)
Granted, I am not hugely interested in any of these things, but it’s still relevant.
(via gothiccharmschool)
"I begin to let myself believe in my own story, that my words can summon shield-maidens. That my stories can shape the world. The thought of so much power is exhilarating and terrifying."
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Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall (via neverlandwillneverbethesame)
File under BOOKS I NEED TO GET AROUND TO READING.
(via teachingliteracy)
