“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
—Hank Green (via booksandnerds)
April 2012
March 2012
“I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.”
—James D. Sass (via 14books)
“All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you’ve read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and then it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhappiness, good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people, and the weather. If you can give that to readers, then you’re a writer.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via theskeletonofme)
“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”
—Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)
