May 4, 2010
Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Albert Camus, The Fall.
April 15, 2010

Books recommended by the public to be banned in American libraries.

The top 10 titles most challenged titles of 2009 were:

1. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Lauren Myracle

Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs

2. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Reasons: Homosexuality

3. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Reasons: Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

5. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Reasons: Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence

8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

April 13, 2010
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Arthur Pinero.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw (via xineann) (via booklover)
April 9, 2010 • 1,501 notes
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
April 6, 2010 • 966 notes
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March 31, 2010 • 2 notes
I am not rich enough to love you as I would wish, nor poor enough to be loved as you wish. So let us both forget - you a name which must be almost indifferent to you, I a happiness that has become impossible for me. I need not tell you how sad I am, for you know how much I love you. Adieu, then. You have too much heart not to understand why I am writing this letter, and too much intelligence not to forgive me for writing it.
Alexandre Dumas to Marie Duplessis, the prostitute he loved & wrote La Dame aux Camelias in loving memory of. She died from consumption 2 years after this letter was written. 
March 28, 2010
Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
March 22, 2010
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus.