Posts tagged being a reader
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Books break the shackles of time. (x)
(via dearace)
(Source: hobbiteses, via dearace)
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
(Source: heslikefireandice, via dearace)
That is the gift that both reading and writing can give us, is the gift of escaping the prison of ourselves. That is not a gift that Angry Birds can give us.
(via sociolab)
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead
(via sociolab)
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul.
(via do-you-have-a-flag)
This resonated with me tremendously from a very early age.
ngl, Matilda was pretty influential on me as a kid
Psychologists Discover How People Subconsciously Become Their Favorite Fictional Characters
Psychologists have discovered that while reading a book or story, people are prone to subconsciously adopt their behavior, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses to that of fictional characters as if they were their own.
Experts have dubbed this subconscious phenomenon ‘experience-taking,’ where people actually change their own behaviors and thoughts to match those of a fictional character that they can identify with.
(via singarequiem)
