first post here 🖤

I know you’re staring (at my books of course)

ahmm what book did you want?!?

I bet we can have a lot of fun if we stay home

What book did you want?

[F]ind me through the Looking-Glass

"Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong"

"I have the choice of being constantly active or instrospectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." (oc)

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

how are you spending the day? me:

I have been such a good girl today…

“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books."

“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.”

Be mind[f]ul of you dirty thoughts, r/GWbooks, they betray you!

“Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn’t waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.” - Paul Auster

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”

“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months, if not many years, of one man’s solitude...”

“it was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

“And what is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?”

“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.”

“Looking for love in all the wrong places”

“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one.” [OC]

“... she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”