Olivia's Shelf

from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

i am the happiest creature in the world. perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. i am happier even than jane; she only smiles, i laugh.

Homer, The Odyssey, book i

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

literature posters; the witch of blackbird pond by elizabeth george speare

Boys, we all stan Jane Austen anyway but this book slapped so hard. we stan our queen Anne

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

“ Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other. ”

you men tell us we are angels, and say we can make you what we will, but the instant we honestly try to do you good, you laugh at us and won’t listen, which proves how much your flattery is worth.

“they’re a rotten crowd”, i shouted across the lawn. “you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” 

This is my admittedly graceless strategy: annihilate every center of power, so everything will collapse into chaos and people will have no choice but to obey the new most powerful thing - me.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery; Anne of Green Gables

Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit