February 2012
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via farewell-kingdom)
Magical Books for Adults →
amandaonwriting:
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
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thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that...
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What a not so brilliant day it is
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“We’re all very lovely,
Till we get to know each other,
As we stop...”
– Marina and the Diamonds, ‘Homewrecker’
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