I like books more than I like people.
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Reading for Fun: What drama! What adventure! Oh, there is no pleasure equal to that of reading the miracle of the novel-to experience such joys and sorrows at the hands of a paperback is truly one of the great pleasures this life has to offer. If I could do nothing but read for the rest of my life, truly, I would be content.
Reading for Class: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THESE WORDS!
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
— David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
(via 4mbivalent-deactivated20130424)
“My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I’m okay once I realize you’re here.”
— Peeta about Katniss (via thehungergamestriology)
(via lerman)
brendan: you can't find out everything from books, you know.
aidan: i think i read that once.
