apothecarist | danceanthems:
“Bloomsbury, the publisher of the “Harry Potter” series by author JK Rowling, also said it was counting on a new Rowling three-book box set tied into the Potter series, and a non-fiction account of spies in World War II to support sales in the coming year.”
"Stories are wild creatures. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?"
— A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
I just finished this series last night and I demand that you all read it. You can thank me later.
"Sizewise, she’s always been just smaller than me.
But I think of her and I feel like she’s as big as the world."
— Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
"That bitch.”
“Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch, it’s because she’s doing something right."
— Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
— Carl Sagan (
American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science populaizer, science communicator, 1934-96) via
fleurishes (via
petitpoulailler)
"I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, too, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?"
— The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
"War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too."
— The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
"‘She ain’t my girl,’ I say, low.
‘What?’ Doctor Snow says.
‘What?’ Viola says.
‘She’s her own girl,’ I say. ‘She don’t belong to anyone.’"
— The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
