Writer. alterna-chick. introspective GenXer. feminist. dilettante. vegan. indie film and music fan. avid reader. Prefer cultural activities to sporting events. Indoors to outdoors. City to suburbs.

 

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Anne Rice (via myquotelibrary)

Isn’t this the idea, in love?” he said. “That you should be able to love the worst part?

Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem

There are things you can’t reach. But
you can reach out to them, and all day long.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via bookoasis)