“3-dimensional book sculpture of Rapunzel in her window, braid hanging from the edge. Crafted from a new (not rare) copy of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” this piece measures approx 11.25” wide, 7.75” tall not including the braid, which adds an additional 9.5”
(via bookoisseur)
(by Abby Yi)
(Source: a-silly-little-moment, via bookoisseur)
Quilting nearly done by Lynne @ Lilys Quilts on Flickr.
Penguin books quilt!!
(via teachingliteracy)
"There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"
— Marina Tsvetaeva
"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)
(Source: kadrey, via wilwheaton)
"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."
— Edwin Whipple
