For 3 years now, I've been sharing all the books that I've read and loved on #Litsy, so everyone else on here could read and love them too. Kind of like a modern-day librarian. But on here, there's no way to categories and catalogue stuff - something that I love doing, personally and professionally.

So I made an insta page, would love if you could check it out! ❣️

https://instagram.com/readcarpetthoughts?utm_medium=copy_link

‘Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.‘

Read on: June, 2021

'She realised that she hadn‘t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.'

Read - 26th April, 2021

'Thoughts about it all goin' fast. They won't leave me alone sometimes, remind me of the man who sold my mother a complete set of encyclopaedias once when we couldn't afford a comic book. Thoughts that keep rappin' on the door and them come on in when you're too tired to keep them out, and once they're inside they just keep talkin' until you feel like buying something just so they'll leave.'

Read: Dec '19 & Jan '20

'This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you; we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic. Every secret service knows this paradox.'

- The Book of Dust

Read: October '19

'The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.'

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'Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?'

Read: August '19

'Absence does make the heart grow fonder—at first, at any rate.'

Read: June '19

'Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually doing it.'

Read: April '19

'People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.'

Read: Feb '19

'He could have actually used this surplus money to reduce his father's debts to his boss, and the day when he could have freed himself from the job would have come much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had done things.'

Read: Nov18

'Let us review the case as it stands at this moment...'

Read: Nov18

'And as the train whistled its imminent departure, a small girl wearing neat plaits and someone else's shoes climbed its iron stairs. Nobody noticed as the little girl stepped over the shadowed threshold. {...} And so, when the essence of light and life that had been Vivien Longmeyer contracted itself for safekeeping and disappeared deep inside her, the world kept moving and nobody saw it happen.'

Read: Oct18

'Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes you everything brighter and sharper, or blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit, it's hit me when it comes to you.'

Read: Sep18

'Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passed away in the loneliness of the dead.'

Read: Aug18

'Esther asked why people are sad. "That's simple," said the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if the plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams".'

Read: Aug18

'Regardless of how ill prepared you are, head off like a bull in a china shop.'

Read: July18

'You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified that somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.'

Read: July18

'...Adam called out to her. "What are you up to over there, Floriana?"
"What does it look like? I'm gathering rose petals."
Kneeling on the grass, she was indeed gathering rose petals.'

Read: June18

'Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.'

Read: as a kid
Re-read: June18

'The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.'

Read: May18
#Catch22

'I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.'

Read: March18

'It's better this way, sister. There's more to life than staying safe...'

Read: Feb18
#thebooklingscrate

'If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.'

Read: Jan18

'That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.'

Read: Sometime in 2017

'And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.'

Read: Aug2017

I haven't read the book, but 5 minutes into the documentary of Joshua and Ryan, I knew I was doing something wrong. Surrounded by books I hadn't read for months, I knew I had gone from being a reader to a hoarder. And I did not like being the latter. 2 hours on, I knew what I had to do.

I have decided to sell/donate all 200 of my books this month.

After all books are better off when they're being read. :)

Also, it feels good.

Can't read anymore, need suggestions.

I have been a reader for a very long time. Since last year, I've read more than 50 books. But from the past one month or so, I haven't been able to read, at all. I've gone through a horrible breakup and right after my ex told me he got with a girl, I haven't been able to read anything or well concentrate.

So I need your help, please suggest books that are super interesting and that which I cannot put down.

'I placed the phone quietly on the receiver and stared at it for nearly five full minutes before I really started to cry. He didn't call back.'

Read: June17

'That was the trouble with lies - each one created the next in a never-ending spiral. And that was the trouble with trust; she beloved his every word.'

Read: June17

'When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for ur heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. U would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world, or even have some sort of sound like the gong of a cymbal. But it's silent nd u almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.'

'Now is not the time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.'

Read: May17

Today, I decided to tell everyone about the book. None had actually asked.

So it went like, there's this girl, she takes smoke-breaks but she dosn't smoke, nd Life came to her nd sort of helped her out wth her life, which was mesy nd oh yea she got dumped 3 yrs before Life came into her life.

That's when I realised,

I didn't make sense.
The book made more sense on paper.
And
If my Life walked into my life, he'd clearly be very disappointed.😜

'While you're alive your business is with life.'

'No, Iorek,' she said gently, 'our business is to keep promises, no matter how difficult they are.'

Read: May17

'Chattering happily, as if she'd already forgotten the fight, she led the way up the slope towards the forest. Will followed in silence.'

Read: May17

'It wasn't Lyra's way to brood; she was a sanguine and practical child, and besides, she wasn't imaginative. No one with much imagination would have thought seriously that it was possible to come all this way and rescue her friend Roger; or, having thought it, an unimaginative child would immediately have come up with several ways in which it was impossible'

Read: April17

'We'll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. It can't last.'

Read: April17
(No harm was done to the book while clicking this picture.)

'Fate has cruel timing.'

Read: April17

'It's just a crazy damned life, that's all...'

Read: April17

'Maybe . . . a cognac?'

Read: March17

'For me, during this entire period of depression, the only thing that hinged me together was life. [...] Nobody can be unhappy forever, unless they like that emotion a lot. I was a sunny child, the one who chased happiness and rainbows. What happened had smudged my rainbow with long black streaks. It didn't matter for I knew that one day it would change colour. It did but I've saved one black streak for remembrance, for protection.'
Read: March17

'When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have lead me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.'

#Read: Feb17

'"Of course, writing can't be a full-time job," I said. "There's a high chance of failure - you wouldn't know what to do, you're neither here nor there"

"If every author thought that, where would literature be?" said Fritz grandly. "When you write you don't earn a living, you learn a living, yeah? Writers should live on the edge of the world. If they step inside, they'll have to compromise."'

Read: Feb17

❤️ All mine...!

'"Eh! Monsieur Lawrence," called Poirot. "We must congratulate you, is it not so?"

Lawrence blushed, and then smiled awkwardly. A man in love is a sorry spectacle.'

Read: Jan17

'Saturday, October 26, 1991 (Henry is 28, Clare is 20)'

Read: Jan17

'One little soldier boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself

And then there were None.'

Read: Jan17

One year ago, I started reading 'Heidi' and decided that my new year resolution would be to read 24 books - 2 a month.
I read 35!
My resolution for this year would be - 3 books a month. Fingers crossed.

Happy New Year! 🎉😘🎉

'He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.'

Read Dec '16

'There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.'

Read: Dec '16

'I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.'

Read: Nov16