gatsby: hey i just met you

gatsby: and this is crazy

gatsby: but i'm going to spend most of my life and wealth in an attempt to pursue you for your stunning vapidness and the warped image of yourself created in my mind as a precursor to my eventual fall

gatsby: so call me maybe

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)

(Source: kadrey)

wesleyanphoto:

Beautiful day to be outside, May 17. 

yes, yes, YES.

unbelievably mad at myself. i’m flipping out right now.