March 2012
1 post
Six types of Love.
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
February 2012
51 posts
That moment
pickleswithlegs:
When you are reading a book and realize a character that you like is going to die and you just close the book and stare at it. Like not reading it keeps them alive….
What The Hunger Games is about: tyranny, revolution, courage, love, growing up, identity, poverty, hunger, class conflict, sacrifice
What the media thinks The Hunger Games is about: a steamy love triangle
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more...”
– Jean Rhys (via fuckyeahreading)
JK Rowling announces writing a new book?
martyymcfly:
treehill-hufflepuff:
“I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had...”
– Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver)
“My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar...”
– Neil Gaiman (via booksandnerds)
“That’s the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at...”
– 11/22/63 by Stephen King, p. 200 (via zachsfletcher)
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via writingquotes)
