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17 posts tagged books

❝ Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ❞

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar wilde #literary quotes #books #reading

18 April 2012 ♥ 7,500 notes Reblog

❝ Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. ❞

— A Girl You Should Date via @brainpicker (via bookshelfporn)

#dating #girls #personality #books #reading

22 March 2012 ♥ 3,578 notes Reblog
reblogged from bookshelfporn

❝ Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ❞

— J.D Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

#catcher in the rye #j.d. salinger #books #classic novels #coming of age #coming-of-age

1 March 2012 ♥ 8 notes Reblog
reblogged from complicatedverbosity

#the little prince #le petit prince #growing up #imagination #books #reading #kids books #classic books

1 March 2012 ♥ 40 notes Reblog High-Res

❝ Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person. ❞

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via damninsomniac)

#quotes #fitzgerald #writers #authors #books #novels

27 February 2012 ♥ 1,627 notes Reblog
reblogged from tattoolit source: damninsomniac

wordsandeggs:

On Heroes and Hero-Worship (Thomas Carlyle) and Representative Men (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Vintage paperback cover, via vintageedition.

#vintage #vintagebooks #books #war #war books #ralph waldo emerson

25 February 2012 ♥ 29 notes Reblog High-Res
reblogged from wordsandeggs source: vintageedition

wordsandeggs:

doubledaybooks:

Vintage Book Week posters from Where The Lovely Things Are.

1950 Book Week poster »>

#books #reading #vintage #1950's #vintageposters

10 January 2012 ♥ 210 notes Reblog High-Res
reblogged from wordsandeggs source: wherethelovelythingsare.com

chuckgroenink:

I was doing a little cleanup on my laptop and found this version of my first illustration for Picture book report, back from last year.
At the time I spent about a day unhappily trying to colour it before deciding to go with just a scheme of two colours on a yellowish background. But looking back this really isn’t as terrible as I thought it was at the time.

#illustration #picture books #books #reading

4 January 2012 ♥ 1,240 notes Reblog High-Res
reblogged from chuckgroenink

wordsandeggs:

WILDWOOD, SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION. By Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis.

Also features a color, foldout map!

From the wonderful Powell’s Books. Read an interview and see more images HERE.

*Via TeachingLiteracy.

#books #reading #illustration #art

3 January 2012 ♥ 84 notes Reblog
reblogged from wordsandeggs