細雪

It does not discriminate, and all will join in at some point.

There are many ways of being born, which may influence the infant’s future, and there are many ways of dying, but there is only one conclusion to the process of dying: eternal, silent death.

cleaxocolat asked: HEY TURTLE. DID YOU MISS ME?

Haha. XD

vablatsky:

It pains me when people mistreat books.

ukuzihs:

It pains me when people mistreat books.

Especially my books.

When books come back with wrinkled covers, nicked pages, blunted corners, creased up spines, bent pages.

Some people say the “worn” look gives them a more… “homey” or “read” or “enjoyed” look.

But I take a lot of care in my books to try to not bend corners, leave creases in the spine, or bend the covers or pages.

And it kind of hurts when I see people throwing books or bending corners of pages because they don’t have bookmarks. 

Or when they give me back books I took so much care to keep in as good a condition as possible as a mess.

I guess some people weren’t taught to treat things with care- especially other people’s things that were lent to you.

I didn’t even lend them this book… My mom had lent it to them and forgotten about it…

“I met this mother in a signing queue not long ago who said to me, ‘Oh, and my son is here and he wants to meet you, but he was too ashamed of the state of the book to ask you to sign it and it was all wrinkly and covered in rubbish and the cover was falling off. And I made her go and get him because that is exactly the state I want to see my books in. I have no track with these people, these very anally retentive people, who don’t crack the spine when they read a book. I say crack the spine and read it because that’s what it’s there for.”

- J.K. Rowling

And then the pages fall apart and out, you lose track of them (maybe even your favorite pages), then the book itself breaks into half, and you end up throwing it away or wrapping a rubber band around it to somehow attempt to keep it intact.

And Children… Children are clumsier than adults.  Adults who are borrowing books from other adults.  And books in this country are not cheap, to say the least. 

There’s really no need to be cracking spines of any books to read them.  Text is technically supposed to be type-set so you don’t have to do that.