“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.”

Books are beautiful on bookshelves, but they’re more beautiful in your hands.

wisdom from susannah conway (by ruth p clark)

Choose Books! 

We’re about to get…literary.

I have trust issues with authors

me reading: this character is going to die. isn't he.
the author:
me reading: I can't care about this character. I can't care about him as much as I want to because he's going to die
the author:
me reading: I can tell you're writing him like he's going to die, author
the author:
me reading: I'm not falling for this.
the author:
me reading: oh maybe he's not going to die.
the author:
me reading: because if he was he should have died there
the author:
me reading: okay, I'll care about him
the author:
me reading: I see that I can trust y---
*character dies*
the author: TROLOLOLOLOLOL
me reading: FUCK SHIT FUCK YOU FUCK YOU NEVER AGAIN NEVER FUCKING AGAIN

me when i lend a book to someone: Bend the spine, I bend your spine.

You Are Not Your Bookshelf

bookriot:

You are not the books on your shelf.

You are not the books you have read.

You are not the books you haven’t read.

You are not what books people think you have read.

You are not the books you are supposed to have read.

You are not the books you always meant to read.

You are not the books you hate.

You are not the books you dismiss.

You are not the books you like.

You are not the books you love.

You are not the book you are reading now.

You are not the book you just read.

You are not the book you are reading next.

You are not the books you remember.

You are not the books you have forgotten.

You are not the books your parents read to you.

You are not the books you read to your children.

You are not the books you’ve given.

You are not the books you have received.

You are not the books you have written.

You are not the books you will write.

You are not the books you will never write.

You are not the books you reread every year.

You are not the books you’ve abandoned.

You are not the books you studied.

You are not the books you admire.

You are not the books that made you think.

You are not the books that made you change.

You are not the books that made you leave.

You are not the books that made you pick up the phone.

You are not the books that made you laugh.

You are not the books that made you cry.

All of these books are you.