(Quelle: bookshavepores, via bookporn)
"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
- Voltaire (Quelle: lifeofliterature)
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books—whether it’s strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.
—Cecilia Ahern
(via booklover)
"Democracy is a failure because.. let’s face it.. People are idiots."
- Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle (Quelle: mikeyandstuff, via quatschmitsauce)
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
- Robert Frost (Quelle: wordpainting)
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
- Madeleine L’Engle (Quelle: makelovetothemoon, via despicablealexis)
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (Quelle: quote-book, via eris27)