Once Upon a Book Shelf

Currently Reading: The Violets of March: A Novel - Sarah Jio

Reading allows one to live many lives, see many places, experience many things - more than we could hope for in our life time.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

—Phillip Pullman (via nathanielstuart)

(via booklover)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

—Carl Jung (via girlwithoutwings)

(Source: quote-book)

And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.

—Dante Alighieri, Inferno (via quote-book)