The book rested on her lap, like a doorway.

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He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Now we know why I love the smell of old books… & why I will never own a Nook or a Kindle.

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We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The fact is, you make me feel a lot more than you know.”

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Aren’t we all.

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“…if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

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I have the right to evolve.

 Marilyn Monroe

(Source: life)

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.