Katherine Frances's Blog, page 425
December 19, 2014
"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of..."
““Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.””
- Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch (via wordpainting)
- Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch (via wordpainting)
"The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw..."
“The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.”
- Vladimir Nabokov (via iapprovethispost)
- Vladimir Nabokov (via iapprovethispost)
44. Falsehoods
I was cold
so I pulled the stitches out
of my heart
wove a blanket of falsehoods
and slept stirring for hours
never once feeling peace.
