The wanderer's Den!

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booksdirect:

“Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.”

booksdirect:

“Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.”

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I can’t picture anyone daydreaming about me. I can’t picture someone thinking about me when they’re laying in bed before they fall asleep. I can’t picture anyone telling their friends about me. I can’t picture anyone getting butterflies because I hugged them, or even just because I made eye contact with them. I can’t picture someone smiling because my name lit up their phone. I just can’t.

Our story opens where countless other stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot- in this case my brother Shaun- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. As if we didn’t already know what happens when you mess with a zombie: The zombie turns around and bites you, and you become the thing you poked. This isn’t a surprise. It hasn’t been a surprise for more than twenty years, and if you want to get technical, it wasn’t a surprise then.

(via aftertheendtimes)

(via hungry-for-books)

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. “It’s all right” we whisper, “I’m here, I love you.” and we lie: “I’ll never leave you.” For just a moment or two the darkness doesn’t seem so bad.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman’s Midnight Days (via thresca)

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins (via kari-shma)

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pantheonbooks:

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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a-sensible-heart:

Beautiful lake house. 

a-sensible-heart:

Beautiful lake house. 

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thebookishdark:

Ludwig Bemelmans

thebookishdark:

Ludwig Bemelmans

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It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)