Wonder+Thinking+Beauty=? archive 
Fri, May 17. 2013
Thu, May 16. 2013
“ He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in movies, with swelling music and giant gestures and running through the streets to catch a departing train. It wasn’t the kind of love that Byron or Shakespeare wrote about, with flowery language and hyperbole and iambic pentameter. It was still and deep, like water that you might mistake for shallow if you just watched the surface. It was entirely his, not dependent on her own feelings for him, and it would still be there whether she, or him, or everyone else on the world disappeared. It was a subtle kind of love, but it was true.
— Jake Christie, Small Stories: A Subtle Kind of Love (via weaverofstars)
(Source: insipidexpectations, via erleichda)
(Source: bookporn)
For Children’s Book Week, the best illustrations from 130 years of Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
(Source: summerparadiselover, via recoverykitty)
Damn! Dropped my worm.
Wed, May 15. 2013
(Source: e--l--y, via 10000steps)
“ Indeed, the solitary reading experience is presented as an emotional investment, drawing out powerful and often unexpected depths of feeling that lead them to question who they are and how they perceive the world around them.
— Adam Reed (University of Surrey UK) - Henry and I: An Ethnographic Account of Men’s Fiction Reading. (via anthmusings)
(via teachingliteracy)
