Nose in a Book

"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."

— John Green, Paper Towns (via bookmania)

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"It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

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"Her happiness balances on book spines."

— six word story #22 (via masochistic-dreamers)

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"It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allergory, unhappiness a story."

— Kafka on the Shore (via fishbananafish)

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"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

— ― Jonathan Safran Foer (via bookwormshaven)

"The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."

— Cornelia Funke. (via abrandnewsong)

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