March 2011
Thankyou so much lovely, I'll try my best. I really appreciate your kind words (dearly), and I hope you've had a beautiful, beaming day. Lots of love xxxxxx
Thank you so much, I love to know that I am ‘of use’, that I could help you. I hope we can catch up soon. I miss you! xxxxx
“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book. It sounded like an instrument, or the notes of running feet. She used both hands. She raced them. One shelf against the other. And she laughed. Her voice was sprawled out, high in her throat, and when she eventually stopped and stood in the middle of the room, she spent many minutes looking from the shelves to her fingers and back again. How many books had she touched? How many had she felt? She walked over and did it again, this time much slower, with her hand facing forward, allowing the dough of her palm to feel the small hurdle of each book. It felt like magic, like beauty, as bright lines of light shone down from a chandelier. Several times, she almost pulled a title from its place but didn’t dare disturb them. They were too perfect.”
—The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via feuilleton-)
Rare (lost) Words →
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful.
eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul.
cosmogyral - whirling round the universe.
siagonology - study of jaw-bones.
autexousious - exercising or possessing free will.
nepheliad - cloud-nymph.
gardeviance -chest for valuables; a travelling trunk.
ictuate - to emphasize.
senticous - prickly; thorny.
interfation - act of interrupting another while speaking.
nequient - not being able.
sparsile - of a star, not included in any constellation.
perantique - very antique or ancient.
vacivity - emptiness.
redamancy - act of loving in return.
starrify - to decorate with stars; to make into a star.
