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Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

(via: booklover) (via: sweetnonsense)

1. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

2. The Princess Bride - William Goldman

3. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

4. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling

6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Marley and Me - John Grogan

8. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

9. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

10. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton

11. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

12. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

13. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

15. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde

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No one ever regrets the books they bought, just the ones they didn’t.
— Kelly Hughes (on hesitating) (via aquabooks) (via booklover)
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(via booktumbling)
want.

(via booktumbling)

want.

Jul
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booktumbling:

dreamingofmagic:

yourfavoriteredhead:

aluminumlinoleum:captainkirk:1997:(via crucio)
you guys, i opened book 7, read this, and immediately burst into tears. it was an emotional few days for me. i’m a freak.

This happens to me too so no you’re not a freak.

booktumbling:

dreamingofmagic:

yourfavoriteredhead:

aluminumlinoleum:captainkirk:1997:(via crucio)

you guys, i opened book 7, read this, and immediately burst into tears. it was an emotional few days for me. i’m a freak.

This happens to me too so no you’re not a freak.
Jul
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Always was more of a Malfoy girl.
(via everythingharrypotter)

Always was more of a Malfoy girl.

(via everythingharrypotter)

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He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.
— The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
— James Nicoll (via srsly) (via booksbooksbooks)