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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:21:04 -0400

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Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:41:41 -0400

These beauteous forms, ...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:07:54 -0400

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration

- Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,And turn your eyes around,Where...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:59:24 -0400

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them —
The summer flowers depart —
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing heart.

- The Autumn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:56:04 -0400

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. - Adriana, Midnight in Paris

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Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:08:18 -0400

I have resigned myself to fall. It’s official, I love it.

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:07:31 -0400

I have resigned myself to fall. It’s official, I love it.

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Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:51:07 -0400

“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear/And the rocks...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:40:24 -0400

“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear/And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;/ I will luve thee still, my dear/ While the sands o’ life shall run” (A Red Red Rose, Robert Burns)

sparkly things are just so much better than non-sparkly things.

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:35:17 -0400

sparkly things are just so much better than non-sparkly things.

smart lady.

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:30:48 -0400

smart lady.

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:25:43 -0400

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights)

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:09:17 -0400

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:05:18 -0400

“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

That book for me: grade 5, Jane Eyre.

beautiful.

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:46:54 -0400

beautiful.

“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:30:05 -0400

“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), I shall have no check to my genius from beginning to end” (letter from Jane to Cassandra, January 21, 1801).

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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:25:27 -0400

It always sounds better in French.

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:18:02 -0400

It always sounds better in French.

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:34:23 -0400

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity” (William Wordsworth, Lines Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey)

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Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:01:47 -0400