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College student.Feminist.Abolitionist.
Believes in the power of love, hope, and people.
Will never stop learning, informing, fighting.

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

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→From Young Adult Book Fans to Wizards of Change

There are a few key strategies that make fan activist campaigns like The Harry Potter Alliance successful: invest deeply in the literary themes, prize weirdness, honor the power of cohesive online communities and link to larger organizations that can implement the big ideas of plot-fueled real world advocacy. It’s essential that fans see their own power, or as Slack puts it, “We all yearn to be told we are magical.”

Emphasis mine.

cinderellainrubbershoes:

The Book Thief | Markus Zusak

bookmania:

Strand Books, New York. In 1927, Ben Bass opened Strand Book Store on Fourth Avenue, home of New York’s legendary Book Row. Named after the famous publishing street in London, the Strand was one of 48 bookstores on Book Row, which started in the 1890’s and ran from Union Square to Astor Place.

20:09"What about you, girl on fire? Do you have any secrets worth my time?" — Finnick Odair, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (via beautifulinside-andout

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(via beautifulinside-andout)

10:53"People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it," — The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, p. 220. (via thisisntlisa

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(via booklover)

11:37"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you." — W.S. Maugham (via pavorst

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(via booklover)

15:21"

But independent presses are all dedicated to finding and presenting the best of books, dedicated to the books in and of themselves and to the promise of the authors.

Obviously, I think the answer is yes: Independent publishing delivers authors and readers from the tyrannies that the conglomerated publishing industry often exerts over new and growing talent. Aren’t all decentralizing forces good for an industry (any industry) and good for the community — in this case the community of readers? Certainly decentralization is good in a world as artful as ours.

" — Interview with Unbridled Books Publisher Fred Ramey | Psychology Today (via rachelfershleiser)
(via rachelfershleiser)

bookmania:

Get HBO programming ten years before everyone else. (via vintageanchor)

11:36"A book, any book, is for us a sacred object. Cervantes, who probably did not listen to everything that everyone said, read even “the torn scraps of paper in the streets." — Jorge Luis Borges, “On the Cult of Books” (Book Think)
(Source: bibliofila, via booklover)

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