When people interrupt me while I’m reading
They expect my reaction to be something like:
When really, my reaction is something like:
I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.
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| — | George Plimpton (American journalist, writer, editor and actor) |
That awkward moment when two strangers talk about a book you’ve already read and you’re dying to join their conversation.
And their awkward looks when you actually do join their conversation.
That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
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| — | Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (via wordsorcerer) |
A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, but there he came walking through the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir.
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| — | J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale) |
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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| — | C.S. Lewis (via lifeofliterature) |
