Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what’s inside will change your life, but sometimes you don’t even have to read it. Sometimes it’s a comfort just to have a book around.
Sarah Addison Allen
Source: excessivebookshelf
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger (via dreamingzeena)
(via examined-life)
Source: dreamingzeena
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul—BOOKS.
Emily Dickinson (via larmoyante)
(via litculture)
Source: larmoyante
There are scores of books I have not read, and it saddens me to think that I will never read most of them.
Besides my other numerous circle of acquaintances I have one more intimate confidant-my melancholy. In the midst of my joy, in the midst of my work, she waves to me, calls me to one side, even though physically I stay put. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known, what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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