logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
back to top
Search tags: the-collector
Load new posts () and activity
Like Reblog Comment
show activity (+)
quote 2014-04-30 14:42
I try all things; I achieve what I can.
Moby-Dick (Collector's Library) - Herman Melville

Moby Dick  by Herman Melville (Chapter 79 "The Prairie")

Like Reblog Comment
quote 2013-10-22 13:55
Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege: to find a shell, to feel it, to understand only on some unspeakable level why it bothered to be so lovely. What joy he found in that, what utter mystery.
Like Reblog Comment
quote 2013-10-22 13:51
Every six hours the tides plowed shelves of beauty onto the beaches of the world, and here he was, able to walk out into it, thrust his hands into it, spin a piece of it between his fingers. To gather up seashells--each one an amazement--to know their names, to drop them into a bucket: this was what filled his life, what overfilled it.
Like Reblog Comment
show activity (+)
quote 2013-10-21 01:19
I'm the law, I'm the tribunal! I'm the oppressed, and there are my oppressors! ... There lies everything I hate!"
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Collector's Library) - Jules Verne

Captain Nemo

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

Like Reblog Comment
show activity (+)
quote 2013-10-20 23:48
"What a freak of nature!"
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Collector's Library) - Jules Verne

(Professor Aronnax describing a giant squid, or "the devil fish")

 

squid holding crewman

 

- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

More posts
Your Dashboard view:
Need help?