#you

About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired. He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff." It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write. Books are boring," James said as he wrote. They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books." From A Certain Slant of Light ↗

— Laura Whitcomb

#libraries #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ↗

— Ally Condie

#ally-condie #crossed #dystopia #dystopian-fiction #page-

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn ↗

— Tara Michener

#cyberbullying #relational-aggression #tara-michener #young-adult-fiction #love

And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#young-adult-fiction

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fantasy #first #follow #learn #open

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #infinity #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. ↗

— Sean Hampton

#anywhere #car #dream #gas #going

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you. ↗

— Barry Hannah

#best #comes #little #spell #through

Road-rage is really another expression of inner rage. However, because driving is such a trigger for millions of people, we have labelled it “road-rage”, directing the emotional dysfunction to an external circumstance rather than coming to terms with the internal condition. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #inner-peace