Bookish Matters

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Friday, January 13, 2012

tfios

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

—from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

One of the things I love about John Green is that he can communicate those things which are simple and commonplace yet so difficult to articulate.

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