The Evie Coop

April 29, 2012 2:04 pm

"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for."

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Neil Gaiman (via rookiemag)

(Source: jaynestown, via themightyhammer)

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2:02 pm

bex-chan:

hyannah:

NO.
YOU’RE WRONG.
DON’T TRY TO CORRECT ME YOU ILLITERATE MACHINE.

OMG EVERY FUCKING DAY

(via iam--ironman)

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April 21, 2012 10:29 pm

"I will stop the downward spiral by speaking of it! Society wants silence, but I will tell; I will testify."

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Angela Williams, From Sorrows to Sapphires (via foxfacemellark)

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April 14, 2012 2:43 pm

ashleyinlalaland:

evening-of-falling-stars:

slothesaurus:

bookwormfantasy:

The Bookmark Just Got a Facelift
Why didn’t I invent something like this?! It’s a bookmark that follows you, so simple yet so effective. [via brandflakes for breakfast]

It follows you and it’s thin enough to not leave a crease in the pages and and and and

IF IT DOESN’T LEAVE A STICKY MARK ON THE ENDS IT IS THE GREATEST INVENTION KNOWN TO BOOK KIND.

I NEED THIS.

Get in my books.

I’m in love.