December 2011
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami (via brionnasballoon)
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to...”
– Voltaire, Liberty of the Press (via prettybooks)
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Cacology
noun: a bad choice of words or poor pronunciation.
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Dramatic Monologue
(dra-MA-tik mon’-O-lôg): a literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story line, through a poem or a speech. This speech, where only one character speaks, is recited while other characters are present onstage. This monologue often comes during a climactic moment in a work and often...
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“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via brionnasballoon)
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I created a new Tumblr.
A personal one so that way I wouldn’t have to post stuff on here. http://brionnasballoon.tumblr.com/ :)
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7 Types Of Book Lovers →
I’m a mix of 1. The Book Thief and 6. The Underliner.
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“It was my view then, and still is, that you don’t make war without knowing...”
– The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien
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Whenever life gets difficult or I get sad I watch 9/11 videos and they break my heart. I watch the people struggling, the bystanders crying; I cry with them and realize how selfish I am. That the twenty years I have been living can’t compare to the amount of pain and suffering an hour in those buildings must have been. Or I read Night by Eli Wiesel and realize one day in Auschwitz will equal...
Anonymous asked: When will you update your Favourite Books List? I'd really like to see it! :)
