and there was a scent  on the air
 that was a mixture of bonfires and wet leaves and woolen scarves that got into your mouth.
You had the feeling that you were walking backwards in time, or even into a different world altogether. 
the old tower was as horrid as she had thought. It was dark and menacing and it was old, so old that you could almost smell the oldness breathing out frim it, and you had the feeling that if yous tretched out your hands yolu would be able to plunge them, wrist-deep, into the swirling miasma of the long- ago

TRUE

"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

—  Arthur Christopher Benson(Source: readfaster.com

A STORY

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

WATCHING THE NEW YORK GIANTS AND THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS PLAY
FEELING VERY SAD FOR ANN

"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."

— David Quammen (via prettybooks)

 

 

 

 

 

Some say I live a pretentious life, hiding in pages and pages of countless books. They just don’t understand that these alternate worlds are actually the ones keeping me sane and alive

 

 

"Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,” she had once said. “Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles."

— Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (via thegirlandherbooks)(Source: booksandnerds)

"Don’t let the world convince you that you can’t write. That may ultimately be true, who knows, but it’s way too early to tell. You’re playing the long game, and in the meantime don’t take any guff from those swine. Maybe you don’t look or act or talk like the chosen one. That’s all right. Because in the end writers aren’t chosen. You choose yourself."

— Lev Grossman (via oliveryeh)(Source: levgrossman.com)

Bad day

I am having severe fight or flight today. I want to go home straight home and not talk to anyone. Unsure why today. 12:52 time to go back in