Literately Obsessed!

"There is no way in which a man can earn a star, or deserve a sunset." –G.K. Chesterton ...especially not a sunset like this....#thisisnowofficiallyasunsetpicaccount #vscocam #longbeach #quotes (at Signal Hill - Hilltop Park)

Casual Friday. (at Lifeguard Tower 71)

#tbt to ~*Livin', Laughin' & Louvre-n, 2012*~ ...seriously, I miss Paris. (at Louvre Pyramid)

"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape." –The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton De Botton's writing is infuriatingly good, and everyone should own this book. #theartoftravel #alaindebotton #igreads #vscocam #bookstagram #bookoftheday

"I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame." –The Moon Is Down, by John Steinbeck I'm already #currentlyreading too many books to start another novel right now, but I AM enjoying how the modern design of this @penguinbooks edition of The Moon Is Down looks right at home on my desk... #igreads #bookstagram #johnsteinbeck #themoonisdown #literature #beautifulbooks #vscocam #instaread

"Each day Mollie took a basket with her lunch to a writing hut in the woods where, between 1938 and 1984, she wrote 852(!!!) pieces for the The New Yorker." –book jacket of my @persephonebooks copy of London War Notes, 1939-1945, by Mollie Panter-Downes. (background is a print of The Thames below Westminster, by Claude Monet) #london #monet #persephonebooks #bookstagram #igreads #instareads #britishliterature #currentlyreading

"Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears..." -"Storm Ending," by Jean Toomer I can only drive down PCH so many times without stopping to take some pictures...💁 Welcome, El Niño! #jeantoomer #southernpoets #sunset #southerncalifornia #pier #storm

"‘But human beans is squishing each other all the time,’ the BFG said. ‘They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’ He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants." -The BFG, by Roald Dahl This book is well-worn, and with good reason: it's one of my all-time favorites. It's marketed to children, but as is the case with most of Dahl's books, I'm enjoying flipping through it right now—at the ripe age of 23—just as much as I did when I first read it, in the second grade. Happy Roald Dahl Day! #roalddahlday #roalddahl #theBFG #igreads #bookstagram #instareads

"I think I shall remain in love with you all my life. I'm too old a dog to learn new tricks." -"The Constant Wife," by W. Somerset Maugham #currentlyreading #igreads #beautifulbooks #literature #somersetmaugham #bookstagram #bookporn #instareads

"My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner." -Moon Over Soho, by [Doctor Who writer] Ben Aaronovitch Gray days + Persephone books = me missing London, AS USUAL 💂🏻💂🏻💂🏻

"Maybe Persephone thought Hades was the infinitely cool older man who held the knowledge she sought, maybe she loved the darkness, the six months of winter, the sharp taste of pomegranates, the freedom from her mother, maybe she knew that to be truly alive death had to be part of the picture just as winter must." -A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit Very excited about my first purchase from @persephonebooks! #igreads #persephonebooks #currentlyreading

I don't care WHAT month it is—if it's warm enough to sit outside and enjoy some #chilled #pink #wine, it's still summer. 🌞

When the #bookmark that just arrived in the mail matches the #jellyfish skirt you're currently wearing....thanks, @bookdepository! ☺️

"If one wants to be happy in one's way, one must let others be happy in theirs. The great thing is to not let vanity warp one's reasonable point of view." -"The Constant Wife, W. Somerset Maugham I think I've got all the makings of a ~happy~ evening right here. #roses #wine #literature

Starting the holiday weekend off right: got off work early, got a cheeseburger w avocado, and drove home down PCH. #blessed 🙌 (at TK Burger)

Three years ago today, I loaded my bag & my Pret coffee into a pushcart, served up some Snape-y looks, and headed #backtoHogwarts ⚡️ #happyseptember1st (at Platform 9 3\4)