January 2012
53 posts
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the beast of all...”
– Paper Towns; John Green
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“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“And I felt the unbroken line of me and of her stretching back from our cribs to...”
– Paper Towns; John Green
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“Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I’d always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me....”
– Sarra Manning, Guitar Girl
“People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and...”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– The Fault in Our Stars; John Green
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“… we had to forgive to survive the labyrinth. There were so many of us who...”
– Looking for Alaska; John Green
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“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“The world is not a wish-granting factory”
– The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
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Joel: What’s the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote fuckin’ Moby Dick, he was so poor and forgot by the time he died that in his obituary they called him Henry Melville. You know, like why bother? They’re just going to forget our fuckin’ names anyway. I heard Em went back to New York.
James : I wish it didn’t end like that, I...
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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life...”
– John Green; Looking For Alaska
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“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early...”
– Robert Frost; “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
An Introduction
Hi. My name is Allison Jones. I am one of the two member of LitSluts. The other beautiful member, Sarah Scott, will hopefully introduce herself to you after she sees this.
I love books. I used to hate them, however. I suffered from really really bad dyslexia when I was younger and reading sucked ass. I then went to a lovely school for cool and awesome people who had the same problem as I did,...
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“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize...”
– Charles Bukowski
(via mascella)
Preface.
Hello. I am the other half of LitSluts. The other member, who is the amazing and beautiful Allison Jones, has decided to be an over achiever and introduce herself. So… so shall I!
Some people go to music to find their escape. Some people go to art to find their escape. Reading has and always will be my escape. Reading in my opinion is almost like entering a parallel universe free of...
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“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via readlikebreathing
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“As he read, I fell in love with the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at...”
– Hazel Grace Lancaster | The Fault in Our Stars (p. 125)
“It’s a metaphor, see. You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but...”
– The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
“I will love you as an airplane loves to fall from a clear blue sky and as an...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“You can’t throw years of your life away because it makes a funny anecdote.”
– David Nicholls, One Day
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“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a...”
– David Nicholls, One Day
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“When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever...”
– “When We Two Parted” by Lord Byron 