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Book Swept
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i read a lot of books and i copy down quotes. say hello: somekindofsplash@gmail.com
#5654 in All , #8 in Literature

The Fault in Our Stars

"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being ob...

01 apr 12 3 people like this

Blue Nights

"Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are ...

24 feb 12 3 people like this

im alive

my last post was practically three months ago. three. thats pretty embarrassing. im going to try my best to dodge all glances and stares that indicate my abandonment. thank you for lingering.

24 feb 12 1 person likes this

The Marriage Plot

"In Madeleines face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and beautiful, of everybody who got what they ...

08 dec 11 3 people like this

A Visit from the Goon Squad

"I was working for the city as a janitor in a neighborhood elementary school and, in summer, collecting litter in the park alongside the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge. I felt no shame w...

09 nov 11 2 people like this

q&a

i have read every comment. many of them are so thoughtful and clever, it freaks me out. in a really good way. it is unfortunate that blogger fails to provide a practical platform to respond to each o...

09 nov 11

Tuck Everlasting

"The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimension...

08 nov 11 1 person likes this

The Westing Game

"All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare."The Westing Game, p. 51By Ellen RaskinPublished 1978

16 oct 11 1 person likes this

The House on Mango Street

"People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They dont look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have nothing to do...

05 oct 11 2 people like this

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"She called Joseph the desert, one summer afternoon when we were all walking along the Santa Monica Pier, because, she explained, he was an ecosystem that simply needed less input."The Partic...

30 sep 11

oh hello

a short hello and thank you. im so pleasantly surprised by everybody who has stopped by this creaky site. i especially love the messages often found sitting patiently in my rarely checked inbox. many...

30 sep 11

Charlottes Web

"... with men its rush, rush, rush, every minute. Im glad Im a sedentary spider.""What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and dont go w...

29 sep 11

Mick Harte Was Here

 "You know, like at first you have this gut reaction to something and youre positive that youre totally right. Only after a while, it creeps into your mind that the other guy may actually ha...

26 sep 11

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

"When one is young, one thinks of love as the most important thing, Professor Shan said, still facing the window. Its natural if you think so, though I do hope youve learned a few things from the...

23 sep 11

James and the Giant Peach

"My dear young fellow," the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, "there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours that you havent even started wondering about yet."James and the G...

17 sep 11 1 person likes this

The Tigers Wife

"You must be joking," he said. "Look around. Think for a moment. Its the middle of the night, not a soul anywhere. In this city, at this time. Not a dog in the gutter. Empty. Except for t...

14 sep 11

Hamlet

"As one incapable of her own distress."Hamlet, Act IV, Scene VII, p. 223By William ShakespearePublished between 1599 and 1601

11 sep 11 2 people like this

Matilda

"It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds an...

29 aug 11 2 people like this

For Esmé – with Love and Squalor

"He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective."For Esmé – with Love and Squalor from Nine Stories, p. 106By J.D. SalingerPu...

26 aug 11

Where the Wild Things Are

"And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat so he gave up be...

24 aug 11

The Boy Who Talked with Animals

"Many people took a pace or two backward, as though trying perhaps to get a little farther away from something that was beyond their understanding." The Boy Who Talked with Animals from ...

13 aug 11

Alice in Wonderland

"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."Alice in Wonderland, p. 11By Lewis CarrollPu...

31 jul 11 2 people like this

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Its kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to the point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I dont need an hour in f...

17 jul 11 2 people like this

White Oleander

"If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of ones own universe, to live on ones own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look thro...

08 jul 11 4 people like this

Death: A Life

"I feel that I have important things to do, and important things to say, and I want to share them with all Creation, I just dont know what they are exactly. But I can feel something. My true call...

28 jun 11 3 people like this

The Giver

"He found he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himsel...

23 jun 11 1 person likes this

1984

"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."1984, ...

17 jun 11 2 people like this

Anna Karenina

"Anna Arkadyevna read and understood; but it was distasteful to her to read, that is, to follow the reflections of other peoples lives. She had too great a desire to live herself. If she read tha...

13 jun 11 1 person likes this

Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

"Well, he sort of had his hand on my stomach. You know. Anyway, all of a sudden he said my stomach was so beautiful he wished some officer would come up and order him to stick his other hand thro...

06 jun 11 1 person likes this

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

"What happened was: they became a team, a family of two. There had been many times before they ran away when they had acted like a team, but those were very different from feeling like a team. Be...

02 jun 11 1 person likes this

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