”I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Vintage Penguin Paperbacks
let’s just stay in bed and read all day.
me: humanity is awful i can’t believe this there is no goodness or love
me: life is ok actually and i have a reason to live
Part of the New Internet Grammar: using question marks not to denote questions, but upturns in voice, so that a tentative statement gets a question mark but a flatly delivered question doesn’t.
why would you do this
It just seems right?
Details from illuminated manuscripts. Getty Museum, 2018
05.18.18
Wiener Neustadt, Austria | Day 2 Around Austria
bookish📚
blue hair don’t care #whatthelibrarianwore #submission by librarydiaries on instagram
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."—J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Edinburgh Café
Photo: Dieter Krehbiel
By mylittlebooktique via Instagram
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via books-n-quotes)
“More Books Than Space” by 0olong