(by Honey Pie!)
1. Books, I want all the books.
2. I don’t have money to buy all the books.
3. My bookcase is full.
4. My TBR pile is huge.
5. I need help.
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That lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more powerful, than most people suppose. Book Lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines-not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master’s call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality
Robertson Davies (via perennialetudiante)
I love that feeling you get when you don’t remember that you’re reading. When you’re so captured by a book that you forget you’re reading the words. All you see is the descriptions and conversations that being to play out like a movie in your head. You don’t even think about it. Then before you know it, you’ve read 100 pages without realizing it. That’s probably the best feeling in the world.
who am i where is this what am i doing herE WHERES HEDWIG
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life. (via bookporn)
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway (via wordsnquotes)
Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.
Unknown (via the-healing-nest)
Coming home with a new book is a bit like knowing you just made a new friend
(via storamogul)
The adventure never stops
I’m happy because I just finished reading a really good book. And happier still because now I get to start another.
I visited the library today for the first time in years. I’ve bought my books for quite a long time; borrowed from friends and family. It felt strange to browse the shelves and see not only new books, but old books, forgotten books, read and re-read books. It felt like an echo from my childhood, when everything I read came from the library.
I like libraries. I like that they exist. I especially like that I can find odd books, that have gone out of print and are forgotten by most people, perhaps they never got much attention at all. But I have to say that I’ve become quite a fan of buying books. I rarely read books more than once, so it doesn’t really make sense for me to buy them. But I like to have them, I like that they are more than ideas and memories in my mind when I talk about them.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.