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Another blog about books, quotes, and the occasional window into my own thoughts.

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world… and I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)

3 days ago

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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

Gus, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via peachmonkey)

4 days ago

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dodging-shadows:

My favourite quote by my favourite man using my favourite fonts in my favourite piece of software.

DFTBA

John Green and the human truth seem to be synonyms rather a lot.

4 days ago

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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” (thanks, lizchristine)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

4 days ago

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Anonymous asked: Hello deary! I just thought I'd leave you a little note... and say my mom says hi... and that we need to hang out soon... and... yeah... Love you! ~Diana (p.s. sorry i'm doing this anonymously... but i like my eccediana better than my nofuckingingthelibrary right now... haha)

:D Your note makes me happy! Even though it is anonymous and I supposedly have no idea who you are ;D Tell your mom I say hi back and YES, we haven’t hung out in awhile. I don’t have any spare moments this week with band and guard and relay-for-life and my friend [desperately] needing my help on his research paper. But I will have time this weekend!! <3

2 months ago

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Theme: Cavalcade

seaboy:

Spotted on my walk home today

(via teachingliteracy)

4 days ago

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my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom

E. E. Cummings

4 days ago

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When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

John Green, Looking for Alaska (via quotesfrommagicbooks)

4 days ago

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I’M A TERRIBLE BLOGGER

Okay, I change my mind. I’ll reblog things. But I also want to post my own pictures and my own things. And I will.

In the meantime, PASHA!

5 days ago

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the-absolute-funniest-posts:

Just reblog and then just click on the picture above, then click on play, then leave the mouse alone, sit back, and enjoy a piece of creative brilliance. OH. MY. GOD. OMFG. THIS MADE MY DAY ! THIS.

FOLLOW this blog, get free ham =D

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2 months ago

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