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Happy Daze

Watercolor and Gouache on Yellow Paper

2019, 9"x 12"

White Daisies

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“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them. When the book lies unopened, it is literally, geometrically, a volume, a thing among things. When we open it, when the book surrenders itself to its reader, the aesthetic event occurs. And even for the same reader the same book changes, for we change; we are the river of Heraclitus, who said that the man of yesterday is not the man of today, who will not be the man of tomorrow. We change incessantly, and each reading of a book, each rereading, each memory of that rereading, reinvents the text. The text too is the changing river of Heraclitus.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Poetry,” Seven Nights (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

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celebrate with me!

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We’re all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren’t. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.

Emma Hooper

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I read the whole novel straight through. And I got up and drank water, man. You should’ve seen me. I couldn’t move. That’s what a good writer will do to you. He’ll damn near kill you…a bad writer will too.

Charles Bukowski (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

Alice Walker (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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It’s the books you love the most that change you.

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Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

Mark Oliver Everett (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

L.R. Knost (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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I just love that feeling when things are about to change. Like when you know that in a few seconds you’re going to do something and become someone else.

Mindi Scott (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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The books…they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.

Tahereh Mafi

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…I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both

Elie Wiesel (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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We’re talking about the novel, right? But maybe we’re not. We’re talking about ourselves. And I guess that’s what can start to happen when you talk about a book.

Meg Wolitzer, Belzhar (via books-n-quotes)

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Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.