February 2012
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving...”
– Buddha (via saddest-summer)
If you can correctly pronounce every word in this...
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Utah Judge Orders Felons to Read Victor Hugo’s...
Now here’s some hard labor we can get behind. Judge Thomas Willmore of 1st District Court in Logan, Utah, says that he sometimes orders convicted defendants to read Victor Hugo’s 19th-century novel, Les Misérables (and write him a short book report about the work, no less) as part of their sentence. In the novel, a desperate Jean Valjean steals from M. Beinvenue, a bishop who shelters him, and...
Cinderella in Rubber Shoes: Famous Authors'... →
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“When my heart was broken and I was fifteen, I listened to Lou Reed’s Berlin over and over and walked around a lot in the rain, while my friends followed me looking worried and imploring me not to do anything stupid. Well, stupider than walking in the rain, anyway.” - Neil Gaiman
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“The boy…
Cinderella in Rubber Shoes: Famous Authors'... →
cinderellainrubbershoes:
“When my heart was broken and I was fifteen, I listened to Lou Reed’s Berlin over and over and walked around a lot in the rain, while my friends followed me looking worried and imploring me not to do anything stupid. Well, stupider than walking in the rain, anyway.” - Neil Gaiman
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“The boy…
“She felt lonely with him now, and his presence only made it more intense.”
– D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via distantheartbeats)
“The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and...”
– Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (via excessivebookshelf)
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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– H. Jackson Browne (via kari-shma)
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin (via kerryquotesquotes)
“[Only music keeps us here,
each by all the others held.
In the hold of hands...”
– Wendell Berry, from “The Circles of Our Lives” (via the-final-sentence)
“I’ve realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It’s...”
– Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman (via optimistsdaughter)