orientalverses:

“Reading isn’t the only way to protect your soul, or to live in total time, or to find your own way home – but we’re talking about reading here, and my most intense experience is with and through language. I am like Adam and I need to name things. This is not taxonomy and it’s not reductive, rather it’s trying to find a language that fits. Fits what? Not only the object or the experience but also the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson, ‘A Bed. A Book. A Mountain.’ from Stop What You’re Doing And Read This! (via kafk-a)