Currently Reading: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
but at night
while the others slept
we kept walking the tightrope
it was practice
and yeah
some of us fellbut I want to tell them
that all of this shit
is just debris
leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought
we used to be
and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself
get a better mirror
look a little closer
stare a little longer
because there’s something inside you
that made you keep trying
despite everyone who told you to quitthis fucking poem is amazing my god
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear
a body littered with ugly things.But God,
doesn’t she wear
the world well?— Warsan Shire, from “Ugly”
Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.
Fact 2: Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud.
Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You’d better read.
Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets - reading might save your life.
Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them.
“…Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over.”
