I am a 21 year old English major going to school in Georgia just waiting to move to Seattle. I love all things books and tea and I suppose you do too or something....wow this sounds boring...oh well! Enjoy!!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
-C.S. Lewis
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Vintage Open Book
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 (via olanthanide)
Museum unveils Bronte’s teeny tiny early work
A manuscript by British author Charlotte Brontë that fits comfortably into the palm of a hand that fetched 691,000 pounds ($1.1 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in December, more than twice the upper estimate, went on display this week.
(by marlenakate)
The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice. The only exception was books, which I acquired freely, because I never really felt they belonged to me. Because of this, I never felt compelled to finish those i didn’t like, or even a pressure to like them at all. But a certain lack of responsibility also left me free to be affected. When at last I came across the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn’t control what came through it.
Nicole Krauss, Great House (via bookoasis)
OH GOODNESS.
a book fountain in Budapest
this is one of the coolest fountains I’ve ever seen
THIS ONE SKIPS THE QUEUE
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Book cake (by Lesley Smith (Freelance Journalist))
