#hara

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#character #characters #ideas #impact #reading

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#character #simile #substance #character

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#misattributed #nobility #character

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#genre #young_adult #character

I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#character

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#conscience #duty #character

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#humanity #character

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. ↗

— Jack London

#tattoo #tattoos #character

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch. ↗