violentwavesofemotion:

“Gently, dreamily, quietly.”

— John Masefield, from The Collected Poems; “Sorrow of my Death,”

declanlynch:

_{.。･:*:･ S U M M E R   B O O K   R E C S  ･:*:･。. (◕ ˬ ◡✿)}

_{♥ = standalone    ★ = series    ✿ = poetry} 

• _{The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho ♥}
  

_{“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”}

• _{The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ♥}

_{“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”} 

• _{The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón ✿}
  

_{“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”}

• _{Circe - Madeline Miller ♥}
  

_{“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”} 

• _{Mythology - Edith Hamilton ♥}
  

_{“Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three”} 

• _{How To Be Perfect - Ron Padgett ✿}
  

_{When I was little I had a top
that spun on its point.
A lot of kids had tops,
I guess they spun them.}

• _{The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater ✿}
  

_{“She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.”}

• _{Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli ♥}

_{“Before being technical, science is visionary.”}

• _{The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams ✿}

_{“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”} 

• _{Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman ♥}

_{“People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”} 

• _{Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips ♥}

_{“She had hair the colour of’ blackmail, a spine as straight as a guillotine, and a face that could sink ships.”} 

• _{Wishing For Birds - Elisabeth Hewer ✿}

_{“There’s so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake?”}