And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead. –Rick Yancey, The Fifth Wave
Tag Archives: #references
Choosing
Choosing a class became choosing a discipline, and choosing a discipline became choosing a career, and choosing a career became choosing a life, and how was anyone supposed to do that, when you only had one? -V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue And my heart melts.
Books
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one. -V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue
Life
Life doesn’t have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen. Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, #1)
Dreams
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. –J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) For all the potterheads out there! And for the record, I’m not one of them! Annnnd people an announcement! Yesterday, we got one month old! It was our monthiversary(If that’s even aContinue reading “Dreams”
Quote
When people say ‘I quote’ and pause, they come across as scary-level intellectuals. Let’s face it, nobody wants to mess with the ‘I quote’ types. –Chetan Bhagat, The Girl in Room 105
Reading
When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel. –Kasie West, Pivot Point That is so true! Also, somehow I didn’t post her quotes yet and that really felt like betraying her.🙃
Truth
“The truth,” he says, “is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.” -Taherah Mafi, Unravel Me I love this guy, I love Aaron Warner Anderson(fun fact– I’m partial towards the name Aaron, reason–unknown), and this line? This line really broke my heart into twenty six thousand five hundred and ninetyContinue reading “Truth”
Mermaids
I’m on the toilet at the 9:30 Club, and I’m wondering how mermaids pee. -Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited These are the exact words with which the narration of the book started, I’m very impressed with her right now. And for the record, according to Google, mermaids have this thing through which they pee(andContinue reading “Mermaids”
Boredom
I’m sitting here trying not to expire of totalicus boredumus while Mrs. Mears explains the life cycle of the royal walnut moth, aka Citheronia regalis, aka kill me now. -Sandhya Menon, From Twinkle, With Love Totalicus boredumus. Pffft. This disorder may be the one to mark my end. 😂