❝I like books. By immersing my self in books I could spend my time away from everyone else, to the point that I could forget about myself.❞

--Leo Baskerville (via hopeless-27)

❝I miss you deeply,
unfathomably, senselessly,
terribly.❞

--Franz Kafka (via vodkaandvogue)

❝Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.❞

--Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (via quotes-shape-us)

❝I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.❞

--Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
(via bookmania)