Quote reblogged from to Camelot with 44 notes
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don’t read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways…It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.
Source: larmoyante
Quote reblogged from I just want you with 82 notes
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
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Quote reblogged from Books and nerds with 61 notes
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed
Source: booksandnerds
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Quote reblogged from Books and nerds with 74 notes
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
Source: booksandnerds
Quote reblogged from Amanda Marie with 2,285 notes
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.
Source: booksandnerds
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