My name is Kat. I'm 24 and I live in California. I love reading and writing. This blog is mainly composed of stuff that inspires me and my obsession with books, with a dash of fangirling about favorite ships and TV shows. Ask me anything you like.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.
George Plimpton (via whisperingwillow)
F. Scott Fitzgerald knows … we belong.
I remember getting one script, and the people said, ‘Okay, well, it needs some help with the plot, the pace, the characters and the dialogue,’ ” he remembers. “And I said, ‘What did you like about it, the typing?
John Sayles, interviewed here. (via thebronzemedal)
What we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.
Jeffrey Eugenides (via lavandula)
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
… Ernest Hemingway
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
Wislawa Szymborska (via writingadvice)
Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong..
Neil Gaiman (via suzywire)
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired
produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books
than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity…
We cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort,
their ready access reassurance.
A.E. Newton (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
