John Singer Sargent. A Street in Venice. c. 1880-82. Oil on canvas.
Read together
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (via the-book-diaries)
[There’s truth to this quote]
A place to read
The Quai St. Michel, Childe Hassam
La belle dame sans merci.
Poems by John Keats
John Keats
Illus. by Robert Anning Bell
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897.
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher”
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
(via thoughts-positivity)
(via thoughts-positivity)
Owl & Company Bookshop
3941 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, California
yup
Bookstore by Julie Berntsen on Flickr.
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