→ Oct 2011 "Carefully watch your thoughts for they become your words. Manage and watch your words for they become your actions. Consider and judge your actions for they become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits for they become your values. Understand and embrace your values for they become your destiny."
— Ghandi (via salveo)
→ Oct 2011 "I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (via aqueuse)
→ Oct 2011 "Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh."
— Sylvia Path (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K, Rowling (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them."
— Markus Zusak (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
— Cassandra Clare (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant."
— Markus Zusak (via aqueuse)
→ Sep 2011 "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 aqueuse)
