February 2012
56 posts
6 tags
4 tags
5 tags
3 tags
hardcover or paperback?
8 tags
6 tags
7 tags
5 tags
4 tags
5 tags
5 tags
15 tags
long car ride
The earthy taste of tea mixing with the chemical taste of Lifesavers. Cherry is stinging my sore throat, a chemical burn. iPod on shuffle is a catalyst for nostalgia. Kanye is a catalyst for seated hip hop dancing. And strange looks from parents. If racing thoughts made noise, it would sound like cars speeding on the highway. Christmas songs and Nickelback always Rick Roll my shuffle. Like the...
8 tags
4 tags
2 tags
4 tags
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,...”
– Henry David Thoreau
7 tags
on time
if we thought of life as one long “now,” how much better would things be? how much more accurate is this description of time? past, present, and future makes it seem like there are three realms, three separate worlds, and that the only threads connecting them are memories and imagination. people say that the past is past, and that it doesn’t exist anymore, simply because...
5 tags
mahpiohanzi
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you’ve been storing up since before you were born.
5 tags
Maurice Sendak: I don't write for children. I write and somebody says 'that's for children.'
Stephanie Meyer: Oh, I feel you. I don't write. I close my eyes, channel the spirits, and hit my keyboard like a human Ouji board, and somebody says 'that's a book.'
4 tags
1 tag
“I can see a hundred people a day
who have given up
entirely.”
– Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski
2 tags
17 tags
5 tags
9 tags
“you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”
– Margaret Atwood
4 tags
I believe in pink
To be honest, I constantly write the story of my life, and each fragment goes under very different titles. Somehow, the aggregate picture of my life so far can only be described as pink. The beginning of the Audrey Hepburn quote, “I believe in pink,” would undoubtedly be the most accurate title to my life story as of yet. When my parents found out that they were having a girl, they...
8 tags
Dear recent Anon,
Thank you so, so much for your heartfelt message. You, and all of you guys, are the reasons why I run this blog, and I want to thank all of my followers for constantly inspiring me as well. When I was a kid, my mom used to take my brother and I to a kids’ program at our local library, and my time spent there gave me a love of books. Ever since then, I’ve become wonderfully addicted....
3 tags
3 tags
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
favorite book I’ve read in my 17 years
2 tags
1 tag
“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”
– To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (via arosary)
1 tag
10 tags
5:53 pm
whenever I watch the window fade from balmy green to black, I picture God adding milk to a cup of black coffee, but in reverse. in a way, i feel like everything’s more real in the darkness. everything’s in its rawest form.
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
12 tags
800+ followers
thank you kind booklusty souls. life’s been sort of crazy lately (I know, it never stops…) but I promise to post more, and to post better. Love you all, and thank you so much for your support, and undeniably, for your love of the literary. stay you.
15 tags
Genesis in Reverse
your eyes are cathedral windows
to smash them is a sacrilege
But careless as I am, one dusk,
I tossed a smooth stone across
the lawn, the stone hurling
through the layers of night,
shaking off dusk’s dust and
submerging in dawn.
.
The stone that so resembles
my earth-born, stubborn heart
flew towards church windows
with magnetic indifference,
crackling your faith-drenched
...
3 tags
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahnuik (via arosary)
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
5 tags
2 tags
3 tags
bookshop soundtrack!
Hey guys! I recently added a playlist to Booklust and Stardust; I tried to make the ideal bookshop soundtrack, the perfect music to listen to while browsing through books. Let me know what you think and if you have any songs you’d like to add!
-Ali
Cameras (Matt and Kim Acoustic Cover)
Where is My Mind? (Acoustic)—-Pixies
Tire Swing—-Kimya Dawson
Oxford Comma—-Vampire...
