"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)
"…but all I could think about now, as night fell, was how much you can love made-up people and how much you can miss them."
Just going to say to show-only watchers, if you still dislike Sansa Stark at this point, you are actually doing it wrong.
Do you remember when you were a kid playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
When people tell me “They’re just fictional characters”, I feel bad for that person because their imagination is so stunted that they can’t feel the life breathing from the characters that are alive in ways they cannot ever understand.
Harry Potter - the boy who defeated the Dark Lord - piss shit scared of Hermione Granger.
