laura irl – Page 3 – Planet Laurel

Someone important to me asked me today why it’s so easy for me to fall in love with books, and yet reject genuine emotion. I told them it’s probably because books never reject, abandon or make you feel less than you are. With people, there’s always a risk of that. It’s easy to fall in love with books, it’s scary to fall in love with people. Because out of these two, only one can hurt you. I can always go pick up a book and know it wants me. Not the same with people.

walkingthroughhistory: The feeling when you pull a heavy book off a shelf and suddenly you are an…

walkingthroughhistory:

The feeling when you pull a heavy book off a shelf and suddenly you are an apprentice doctor who is desprate to cure the king before the land is plunged into war.

impaulsiveschizoid: You know what sucks? Having a breakdown over something you KNOW is stupid. Like…

impaulsiveschizoid:

You know what sucks? Having a breakdown over something you KNOW is stupid. Like it’s still making you feel sick, and beyond upset but you can’t tell anyone because you KNOW its ridiculous and no one will GET it so you just lay there suffering and wanting to cry with no out put or way to fix or work through the feelings.

my mother, to me, the bookish teenager: can you please get obsessed with a real person

my mother, to me, the bookish teenager: can you please get obsessed with a real person
my mother, to me, the ancient history graduate: that is not what I meant

septembersung:Shockingly, I am incapable of anything, anything at all. I’m going to dig a hole and…

septembersung:

Shockingly, I am incapable of anything, anything at all. I’m going to dig a hole and settle down into it and wait for the rain to submerge me.

to-the-fishies:It’s October and I am haunted by all the books I’m not reading.

to-the-fishies:

It’s October and I am haunted by all the books I’m not reading.