Literary Fangirl
Random collection of books I've loved, characters I've loved, and quotes I've ... well, you get the picture. Lots of Russian, it seems.
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Quote reblogged from Wow and FlutterIn the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other’s sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.Douglas Coupland (via paperlover)
(Source: kari-shma)
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I have been trying to decide if it’s possible to choose between them. Still leaning Indy… he’s smarter.
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About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression of you during the day, but it seems to me it’s just the contrary.
Often it’s something you paid no attention to at the time—a vague thought that you didn’t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed—these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.
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Photo reblogged from the wildest hath not such a heart as you;
I must have read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver at least a dozen times. I can’t even begin to count all the ways she shaped my world view.
top five historical lady badasses: eleanor, duchess of aquitaine, queen of france and england (france and england, 1122?-1204AD)
“”Sprung of a house which represented to the full the licentious temper of the South, she scornfully rejected a husband indifferent to love, and ineffective in war as in politics. She had ‘married a monk and not a king,’ she said… In the square-shouldered ruddy youth who came to receive his fiefs, with his “countenance of fire”, she saw a man destined by fate and by character to be in truth a king.” (J. R. Green)
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.Milan Kundera
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It seemed to him he’d come to the place he’d been looking for all evening, a place where prayers are answered in unexpected ways, which is just the way prayers are supposed to be answered. You might get what you want, but it won’t be quite what you expected.Robert Hellenga, The Fall of a Sparrow
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![reconciliatory:
James: “Well, if it makes you feel any better, do you see that bloke over there? Not only does he own a personalized matching set of crocodile-skin luggage, but his favourite TV program is Baywatch. So, you see, there’s always someone sadder than you.”
[Helen starts to cry]
James: “Do you love him?”
Helen: “No, I could never love a Baywatch fan”
James: “Hey, you did a joke in the midst of your turbulent emotional state. That’s very positive.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhhofuhXA61qho82ko1_250.jpg)
James: “Well, if it makes you feel any better, do you see that bloke over there? Not only does he own a personalized matching set of crocodile-skin luggage, but his favourite TV program is Baywatch. So, you see, there’s always someone sadder than you.”
[Helen starts to cry]
James: “Do you love him?”
Helen: “No, I could never love a Baywatch fan”
James: “Hey, you did a joke in the midst of your turbulent emotional state. That’s very positive.”
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Well, you see you are very consistent. It is both a virtue and a fault in you. You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are … All the variety, charm, and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
