imm•ature liter•ature

We do not need lists of right and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts. We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but once upon a time lasts forever

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Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via libraryland)

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That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via itsfromabook)

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Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman
I Will Write In Words Of Fire

neil-gaiman:

Reblogging my own post for those who want to hear the back tattoo poem read aloud.

heartsandpenguins:

neil-gaiman:

From the EVENING WITH NEIL AND AMANDA CD (From the Neil Disk). Because we posted the pictures of the tattoo. Here’s me reading it in, er, Seattle I think.

(The CDs and downloads went out to people who supported the Kickstarter. We’re hoping to release them to the general public towards the end of the year.)

I would like Neil Gaiman to design all of my tattoos. Not that I actually have any. But if I did. Perhaps someday.

(Source: neilandamanda.com)