January 2011
17 posts
And yet must needs call forth sleep from her...
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Harper Lee has it nailed.
She’s one of the most infamous authors of all time. Her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the biggest influences on my adolescent life. And although the morals of Atticus have taught me lessons of reality, fairness, equality, the evils of prejudice and the sense of true beauty that I have elsewhere been unable to encounter, it’s the method of Lee’s own life that speaks to me most.
She lives...
“Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you: it will set you free.”
– Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Room
I’m reading Room by Emma Donoghue, at the moment. Only started, really. But I can tell Donoghue’s done a good job - not by the tens of critical acclamations plastered around the cover, but the instant encapsulation that has pulled me into Jack, our little protragonist. I feel tugged, twisted, chained, smothered, and yet comforted, encouraged, at home. I’m kidnapped and loved....
“I wanted you to see what real courage was, instead of getting the idea that...”
– Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
“If you think you’re big, look at the ocean.”
– Kimya Dawson
