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19 year old geek who over identifies with fictional characters and likes to believe she's fluent in French and Russian.
All characters appearing in this tumblr are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Some pointless facts.
Some favourite quotations..
I find these things really embarrassing to write and I really hate first impressions.
19 year old geek who over identifies with fictional characters and likes to believe she's fluent in French and Russian.
All characters appearing in this tumblr are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
Rainer Maria Rilke
#Rainer Maria Rilke
#lit
"To me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."
Middlemarch, George Eliot
#THIS THIS THIS AND THIS
#Not every boy I come in contact with has to be potential mating material
#Middlemarch
#George Eliot
#lit
#women
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog."
Federico García Lorca
#Federico García Lorca
#lit
#spanish lit
"When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you’re always protecting me… I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can’t I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman’s place!… Conventional Cecil, you’re that, for you may understand beautiful things but you don’t know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap me up. I won’t be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me. That’s why I break off my engagement…"
Lucy Honeychurch (being wonderfully ahead of her time and rather feminist), Room with a View, E M Forster.
#lit
#Lucy Honeychurch
#room with a view
#e m forster
#feminist characters
"Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram."
Room with a View, E.M Forster
#Lit
#room with a view
#e m forster
"But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
Don Cheadle
#beautiful
#lit
(Source: freshgypsy, via postmodernismruinedme)
"”What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
Carl Sagan
#lit
#reading
#books
#carl sagan
I read ‘The History of Love’ today. I cried when I finished; partly because it was a beautiful ending but also because I was just sad it was ending. I guess that’s the mark of a wonderful book.
"It’s also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it - just to name it - must have been like trying to catch something invisible.
(Then again, the oldest feeling in the world might simply have been confusion.)"
(Then again, the oldest feeling in the world might simply have been confusion.)"
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
#Nicole Krauss
#Lit
#The History of Love
"The little prince wondered what could be the use of a lamp-post and a lamplighter somewhere in the sky, on a planet without house or people.
Nonetheless, he said to himself, “Perhaps the lamp-lighter is absurd. However, he is not as absurd as the king, the conceited man, the business man and the drunkard. For at least his work has some meaning. When he lights his streetlamp, it is as if he has brought one more star to life, one more flower. When he extinguishes his lamp, it puts the flower or the star to sleep. It is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful."
Nonetheless, he said to himself, “Perhaps the lamp-lighter is absurd. However, he is not as absurd as the king, the conceited man, the business man and the drunkard. For at least his work has some meaning. When he lights his streetlamp, it is as if he has brought one more star to life, one more flower. When he extinguishes his lamp, it puts the flower or the star to sleep. It is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful."
‘It is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.’
Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart’s getting crushed or exalted, even when you’re absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you’re aware that what’s happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and irrelevance, this built-in hollowness, is enough to account for how pissed off you are."
Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone
#lit
#Jonathan Frazen
#teenagers
#The discomfort zone
"It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."
John Waters
#reading
#lit
(Source: piecesofamoonchyld, via teachingliteracy)
"And more so, to find myself weeping from a real sadness - not anxious, not disappointed, not frustrated or confused - just weeping from the truth of it, and the heartbreak of it, and recognizing it as the purest emotion I’ve ever had. It’s this I want to tell her, that I’m feeling a pure feeling, maybe my first true feeling, and for this - I admit it - I am proud."
‘Everything I Know About My Family on My Mother’s Side’ from ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank”, Nathan Englander.
#Nathan Englander
#What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
#lit
#WWTA
