“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
—John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
July 2011
99 posts
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
—B.F. Skinner (via booksandnerds)
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
—Ray Bradbury (via misswallflower)
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
— Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001)
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as be understood.”
—1984, George Orwell (via idonthaveagoodurl)
