the beginning of autumn makes me want to just hole up in coffee shops with books on books on books every minute i have to spare. i’m okay with it.
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I imagine he knows magic if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in it.
Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted (via beckisbookshelf)
things to be happy about:
- finding a new favorite song
- taking a hot bath when you’re really cold
- finishing a good book
- having sex with someone you really love
- falling asleep at the beach
- sunscreen on a babies nose
- getting into a freshly made bed
- coming home after a long vacation
- watching the people you love most laugh
- painting your nails
- hot cups of tea when it’s raining
- coming home after a long day
- waking up and stretching
- I don't need books about lesbians, I need books WITH lesbians.
- I need witches who accidently fall in love after brewing a love potion, I need love triangles where the girl just says "screw all this vampire and werewolf shit im gonna just get me a banshee or something", I need books about princesses who fall in love with scullery maids and warrior women go on quests with their lady friends to slay dragons and defeat douchey warlords. I want books about female superheroes who casually express their sexuality and nobody treats it like a big deal.
- I don't want books or literature about coming-out or the hardships of being gay or a crappy fetishization of two women in love for the entertainment of sleazy men.
- I just want books that portray a strong female role and her loving relationship with another female role. No more side LGBT characters in a sea of heterosexuals. No more treating the person's non-hetero sexuality as an actual character trait that automatically makes that character interesting. Is that really too much to ask?
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Franz Kafka
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When you feel you have lost everything, you still have
- books
- unexpected kindness in strangers
- the rest of the world to travel
- languages to learn
- animals to take care of
- volunteer work to do
- the power of a good night’s rest
- the changing of seasons
- infinite things to learn
- billions of people to meet and possibly love
- billions of people who might love you back
i really want to sit in a cafe with someone and have coffee while we both write or look at different things but touch each others hands every so often and then go back to sitting quietly but happy and comfortable because the other person is there
and we drink our
coffee and pretend
not to look at
each other.
Charles Bukowski, Luck
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