Melissa Gutierrez's Blog, page 509
December 15, 2011
fuckyeahreading!: If I Were A Banned Book
fuckyeahreading!: If I Were A Banned Book:
If I were a banned book, I'd be the dirty bits and the heaving breasts and the twisted sheets and the scented oils and the chains and rope and dripping candle wax. I would coax you into multiples, and I would urge you to invite another. I'd…
"I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft..."
"I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village."
- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (via bookoasis)
- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (via bookoasis)
"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich..."
"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come."
- Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley (via bookshavepores)
- Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley (via bookshavepores)
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the..."
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
- E.L. Doctorow (via thebookishdark)
- E.L. Doctorow (via thebookishdark)
