Feeling and Dreaming

"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Friday, November 4 ~

downthemiddle:

Might as well give this a try

I love this.

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~ Thursday, December 23 ~

“ Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?

— Alice Walker

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~ Tuesday, December 14 ~

“ I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

— Ray Bradbury

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~ Sunday, October 31 ~

“ If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

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~ Wednesday, October 27 ~

“ There are stories within stories, whispered in ears in the quiet of the night, hollered above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all, all are fragile things made up using just 26 letters arranged and rearranged again and again to form tales and imaginings which, if you let them, will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

— Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (via -lestrange)

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