you, the ocean & me

His hands were weak and shaking
from carrying far too many
books from the bookshop.

It was the best feeling.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt - The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

— Haruki Murakami (via mikeyroarrr)

(Source: murakamistuff)

You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.

— Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.

— vagabond  (via astrapia)

(Source: lobitalolita)

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

— Carl Sagan (via rilkes)

(Source: fabula)