the thing with feathers

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:56:26 -0600

Keep out

martinaboone: Martina Boone: Anne had no sooner uttered the...

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:58:24 -0600

Martina Boone:

Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, “home o’dreams,” than it captivated her fancy and she immediately began the erection of one of her own. It was, of course, tenanted by an ideal master, dark, proud, and melancholy; but oddly enough, Gilbert Blythe persisted in hanging about too, helping her arrange pictures, lay out gardens, and accomplish sundry other tasks which a proud and melancholy hero evidently considered beneath his dignity. Anne tried to banish Gilbert’s image from her castle in Spain but, somehow, he went on being there, so Anne, being in a hurry, gave up the attempt and pursued her aerial architecture with such success that her “home o’dreams” was built and furnished before Diana spoke again.

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

allthingseurope:

Dubrovnik, Croatia (by kexi)

"Titles that have more universal themes, such as vampires and school stories, sell the best,..."

Sat, 12 May 2012 20:55:32 -0600

“Titles that have more universal themes, such as vampires and school stories, sell the best, Weidenbaum said.”

- Brigid Alverson, Shojo Beat Marks Second Year - 4/17/2007 - Publishers Weekly

I will never not be amused by this quote.

(via inbedwithbooks)

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:46:56 -0600

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:06:15 -0600

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:14:00 -0600

aamith: mornings with brother on Flickr.

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:28:39 -0600

aamith:

mornings with brother on Flickr.

aamith: Romance and Sex Questions in an Airport (by...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:20:22 -0600

aamith:

Romance and Sex Questions in an Airport (by vlogbrothers)

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:28:06 -0600

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Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:34:52 -0600

teachingliteracy: More Books This Way (by ank2798)

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:27:28 -0600

teachingliteracy:

More Books This Way (by ank2798)

aamith: heroes of our own making on Flickr.

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:19:31 -0600

aamith:

heroes of our own making on Flickr.

"Well, not all of us are in the same weight class so it is hard to say between Hemsworth and Evans. I..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:57:20 -0600

“Well, not all of us are in the same weight class so it is hard to say between Hemsworth and Evans. I think they’re pretty evenly matched. I think it would go to the ground. Then I think it’s me, Ruffalo, and Renner in a quote-unquote three-way in which I lay waste to them with sleeper holds but then we cuddle. And then it is Hiddleston versus Johansson if I am not mistaken. That probably just winds up in dinner at a five-star restaurant somewhere.”

- Robert Downey Jr. on who would win a battle among the Avengers (via mrscatalano)

I love him.

"You know what really made me fall in love with Katniss? It was that, for once, this is a woman in a..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:55:12 -0600

“You know what really made me fall in love with Katniss? It was that, for once, this is a woman in a movie who is focused on something other than who her boyfriend is. She’s forced into an arena to fight for survivial – she’s thrown into a way and becomes a political figure without even realizing it – and that is far more interesting than her romantic life. Look, I loved working with both Josh and Liam, but as far as Katniss is concerned, I think that with all she has going on, the very bottom of her priorities list is the question of who her next boyfriend is going to be.”

- Jennifer Lawrence (via gigglemonster)

mirkwoodelf: I wish I could tell you Edith…

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:43:02 -0600

mirkwoodelf:

I wish I could tell you Edith…

betterbooktitles: William Shakespeare: Much Ado About...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:19:06 -0600

betterbooktitles:

William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Helen Bendix.

a grey eyed girl: Okay, kids, if you want to win at Easter candy the way your Aunt Charis does, you will listen carefully and follow these...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:47:57 -0600

a grey eyed girl: Okay, kids, if you want to win at Easter candy the way your Aunt Charis does, you will listen carefully and follow these...:

agreyeyedgirl:

Get a Cadbury Chocolate Creme egg and a Cadbury Caramel Creme egg.

Unwrap both eggs.

Crack each egg in half by holding them upright and gently squeezing them between your finger and thumb to open the seam of the chocolate shell. Be careful with the caramel one, you have to open it carefully…

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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:17:38 -0600

wizzardofxxxx: Book covers from the Sharon Shinn series, The...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:37:40 -0600

wizzardofxxxx:

Book covers from the Sharon Shinn series, The Twelve Houses (aka my new addiction) Art by Donato Giancola.

"I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:03:30 -0600

““I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be… This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages…the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide… Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I’m with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don’t ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child’s awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.””

- Madeleine L’Engle

Another quote of hers that seemed a fitting response to this piece by Joel Stein on children’s books.

(via laughterkey)