The Little Mermaid | Part 8
The Little Mermaid | Part 9
I want to have this as a poster. I really do.
George Orwell, 1984
Submitted by theragingcalm.
Madrid/Berlin-based artist Pablo Genovés uses vintage photographs to create digital collages depicting museums, performance halls, and ballrooms crushed by forces of nature titled “Precipitados”
Rudy Steiner (The Book Thief, Markus Zusak)
I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare)
LEONATO: Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
BEATRICE: Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. A community that is opinion-ridden, even when those opinions are in themselves noble, is likely to put its creative minds into some sort of prison.
W. B. Yeats, from “An Irish National Theatre” in The Irish Dramatic Movement (via litverve)
Tavik Frantisek Simon
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For some stories, it’s easy. The moral of ‘The Three Bears,’ for instance, is ‘Never break into someone else’s house.’ The moral of ‘Snow White,’ is ‘Never eat apples.’ The moral of World War I is ‘Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.’
Lemony Snicket | The Wide Window (via thoughtsfromthesuburbs)
Lovely poems Waterstones!
the last one, i’m dying
Isn’t it the worst feeling ever if you see someone holding their book like this
HISSES LOUDLY
WHY
WHAT DID THE POOR BOOK EVER DO TO YOU
15 days of my favorite things; » day 1: favorite book/book series (6/6): The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant."
