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Reading: Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Reading:
If you tell them to care for it then chances are they will be more careful with it. My friends know how crazy I am about my books so they know that if I lend it to them, I trust them to be gentle.
And that’s what I was trying to say, as long as it’s your copy then you can do what you want with it
day 1: favorite book/series (part 2); the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky
“It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.”
Literary Birthday - 25 May
Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson, born 25 May 1803, died 27 April 1882
15 Quotes
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Art is a jealous mistress.
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
I love the regular single stories, the one continues on for 2 or more books, and those choose your endings. I barely remember the stories though, it’s almost 15 years ago :(
It was actually Goosebumps that indirectly led me to Harry Potter. On that fateful day, I was looking for more Goosebumps/Fear Street to buy but I already own all that I saw on the bookstore. Right beside them there was a couple of HP 1 & 2 and I decided to buy those instead since I didn’t want to go home empty-handed. Best decision ever :)
a scene that was not in the movies - requested by twerkingintomordor
“The Elves stirred and murmured with astonishment, and Celeborn gazed at the Dwarf in wonder, but the Lady smiled.”
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life” ~ Walt Disney
I’ve read Septimus Heap up to Physik I think. I never continued on though and gave the 4 books (I bought Queste but never read it) to my younger cousin.
Really? I love that series. I didn’t like the Den of Shadows quartet though, but I think it’s more because of the supernatural/vampire theme rather than her writing because the Kieshara ones are awesome :)
