Addled by Irene

"I like detective stories, and detectives."

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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)

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fuckyoukripke:

WHY ISNT THERE A HUGE FANDOM FOR A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

no really tho why not that fandom would be fucking awesome, everyone would be volunteer fire fighters and would have the fucking eye tattoos on their ankles and talk in couplets

dont pretend you don’t get the references 

because i know

you

do

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