Dreamsofcaroline - Carolina

Clear your desk. Tie up your hair. Get your coffee. Sit down, and start. Just start.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Elizabeth von Arnim (via bookmania)

2023/11/15

Started the day with celebrating my birthday 🥳 and ended it with a beautiful hair accessory (modern version of 빈여 binyeo) that I made in class 😌

Books on the shelves, on coffee tables, on tables beside beds and sofas, on cabinets and underneath flower pots – the beautiful musty scent of pages old and new linger in every room along with the faint perfume of flowers and rosemary. She buries herself within the pages of literature, stuck inside the adventures and thoughts of each and every story she reads, the memories and lives of the characters felt like they were hers as well. Every fact and speculation she thoroughly peruses, taking in as much as she could digest.  The books are both her escape and her comfort.

Remember the beautiful feeling of touching the pages of an old book, wondering just how many people have lovingly anticipated the stories within its pages? Or that simple, musty and kind of historic scent of it? And also, the excitement of opening a new book and feeling like you’ve found a new companion? All these are quite quirky and simple but they are part of this wonderful love I have for books. It’s not only the stories, but the companionship and the “passport” I attain to far off lands and new people in adventures I know I could only have in books.

Artwork by Mariel Sanchez Ypil 2016

Studying with this view ain’t so bad

My bedroom

If you’re an introvert, can you reblog this to help raise awareness that introverts do in fact exist?

Person: How do you have time to read so many books?

Me: *with bloodshot eyes* I don't

I have arrived in heaven and it’s snowing outside and I couldn’t be happier!!!! If you are ever in NYC make sure to stop by Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe because it’s magnificent and I never wanna leave

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