The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Reading a book I dislike and so rereading this masterpiece on the side.
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, something real?”
— Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
“I don’t find our relative insignificance disheartening at all: The main thing it tells me is that in a culture that worships celebrity and the purportedly extraordinary, ALL people are ordinary people. ALL people have the same responsibilities to themselves and to each other. Maybe the universe cares nothing for us, but WE care about each other. And most encouragingly, we care not just for our friends or family but for the whole enterprise of life—we care about strangers and about humpback whales and, most beautifully of all, we care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.”
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John, answering a non spoilery question over at the onlyifyou’vefinishedtfios tumblr and reducing fellow LeakyNews Editor Catherine and I to some leaky leaky tears via the power of Skype. I didn’t paste the answer in full, just an excerpt, so do read the rest.
BUT OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT TUMBLR ARE SPOILERY SO DON’T GO THERE IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE FAULT IN OUR STARS.
(via hermionejg)
I know this is an old video, but at 1:47, Hank and John talk about Sherlock!!!! EEEEEEE!!!
I would like to talk about the second season of Sherlock, but there is still no legal way for me to see it here in the United States, so instead I’m having it slowly spoiled for me by tumblr fan art. Death by a thousand homoerotic watercolors.
Death by a thousand homoerotic watercolors, and YOU HAVEN’T BROKEN?
I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Even though it hurts every time I think about how I pretty much stole something so beautiful from such amazing people that totally deserve the highest compensation for their work.
Like it actually hurts
But
Yeah, no buts.
I am a thief and not proud of it BUT OH MY GOD ITS SO PRETTY
And I have a devious plan to get one of my English cousins to buy two copies of both series. One to pay for the version I stole, and one to make me feel better. Then they’ll send them to me, and I’ll send them my money and yeah.
Yes, I have rationalized this somehow, in my funny brain.
(Source: jayneausten)
