Read ... then Breathe

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can ... Charles Bukowski . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #CharlesBukowski #Bukowski (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ_znSlr67z/?utm_medium=tumblr

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free ... Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWQuRaEg_wi/?utm_medium=tumblr

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever ... Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #HenryDavidThoreau (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVsxTqdALsT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent ... Isaac Asimov, Foundation . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #Asimov (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVlX3W1L36P/?utm_medium=tumblr

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again ... Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #Hemingway (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVcqtkKgvRq/?utm_medium=tumblr

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now ... Audre Lorde . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #AudreLorde (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVbA5lsgIZC/?utm_medium=tumblr

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will ... Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre . . . . #booklover #inspiration #qotd #quotestoliveby #CharlotteBronte #JaneEyre (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVTpl2qgIpJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

A book worth reading is worth owning ... John Ruskin . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #johnruskin (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVBzRdTA-VW/?utm_medium=tumblr

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare ... Audre Lorde . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #AudreLorde (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUdS77sgzUM/?utm_medium=tumblr

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance ... bell hooks . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #bellhooks (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYvj8dIeui/?utm_medium=tumblr

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love ... Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #GGM #GabrielGarciaMarquez #LoveInTheTimeOfCholera (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUVQfaagMQz/?utm_medium=tumblr

Manuscripts don't burn ... Mikhail Bulgakov . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #MikhailBulgakov #TheMasterAndMargarita (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNfq0HoCig/?utm_medium=tumblr

I am a cage, in search of a bird ... Franz Kafka . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #FranzKafka #Kafka #kafkaquotes (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDWOW9g-RU/?utm_medium=tumblr

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes ... Maggie Kuhn . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #MaggieKuhn (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2w2rnr1nK/?utm_medium=tumblr

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks ... Ruth Bader Ginsburg . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #RBG #RuthBaderGinsburg #NotoriousRBG #RestInPower (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTx12rOIL_d/?utm_medium=tumblr

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ... Frederick Douglass . . . . #book #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #reading #inspiration #bookish #booksofinstagram #motivation #quote #qotd #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #lifequotes #read #inspiredaily #bookgeek #classicbooks #wisdom #FrederickDouglass (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTvOKxiIa2m/?utm_medium=tumblr

Café Almendrado and The Myth of Sisyphus on a quiet Sunday evening ... #coffeeandbooks #albertcamus (at Boiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTuqm4kAdF4/?utm_medium=tumblr