Thoughts from my Attic

Books are the undercurrent to life. They are, at least, to my life.

Dirty, yellow, dog-eared fragile pages with tea stains and teardrops marking your presence in them… Nothing, ever, makes me feel the way a book does. And isn’t that the point to life, in a way? To feel. Until you cannot.

Think…

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merccollected — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:04:00 -0400

teachingliteracy: damnedfoolishthing: “Sometimes you read a...

merccollected — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:54:33 -0400

teachingliteracy:

damnedfoolishthing:

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

x x x x x x x x x

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merccollected — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:52:38 -0400

"There’s small choice in rotten apples."

merccollected — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:07:06 -0400

“There’s small choice in rotten apples.”

- Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1.1.134)

Hortensio

(via alwaysiambic)

colorsandsecrets: so true

merccollected — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:57:54 -0400

colorsandsecrets:

so true

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merccollected — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:02:00 -0400

"If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start..."

merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:50:32 -0400

“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”

- Louis L’Amour (via amandaonwriting)

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merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:45:46 -0400

bookish-thoughts: Poppy Falls Asleep Reading a Book (by Vanda’s...

merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:30:49 -0400

bookish-thoughts:

Poppy Falls Asleep Reading a Book (by Vanda’s Pictures)

This is too cute

bookish-thoughts: {9/365} Boy reading (by imamom72)

merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:29:14 -0400

bookish-thoughts:

{9/365} Boy reading (by imamom72)

teachingliteracy: biggerbooks

merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:25:22 -0400

teachingliteracy:

biggerbooks

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merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:38:49 -0400

Robert Pattinson: “If you find a girl who reads, keep her...

merccollected — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:10:20 -0400

Robert Pattinson: “If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.”