"If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print."

Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)

(via teacoffeebooks)

this-is-the-thyme:

C.S. Lewis

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nevver:

— Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

"As sunbeams stream through liberal space
And nothing jostle or displace,
So waved the pine-tree through my thought
And fanned the dreams it never brought."

“Woodnotes” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

existing-in-freeverse:

Favorite snacks of the great scribblers

"This is love, to sit with someone you’ve known forever in a place you’ve been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it’s time to go. You don’t care about yours."

Daniel Handler, Adverbs (via i-contain-multitudes)

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast  (via blua)

(via basstheorychaos)

"Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen."

John Kennedy Toole, Confederacy of Dunces (via lightfallsup)

(Source: eat-dirt-styles, via the-foxes-burrow)

"It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via caybren)