Merely A Memory

Shannon is my name. I am a girl of seventeen years, but I have developed an old soul filled with optimism. Simplicity holds beauty and meaning. Books are my safe haven. I'm a small town girl attempting to paint the world with the color of words.
apoetreflects: “Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it.  And that is to stop.  You’ve got to stop what you’re doing, what you’re thinking, and what you’re expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.” —W. S. Merwin

apoetreflects:

“Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it.  And that is to stop.  You’ve got to stop what you’re doing, what you’re thinking, and what you’re expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.”

—W. S. Merwin

(via libraryland)

It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

—Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)

(via girlwithoutwings)

But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour’s acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. -Pride&Predjudice

—(via swkpop)

thosestaticwaves: “You may only call me “Mrs. Darcy”… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”

thosestaticwaves:

“You may only call me “Mrs. Darcy”… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”