May 2012
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Currently babysitting
I have found one book that isn’t a children’s book. How can I know what kind of person you are if I can’t see your books?! I’m hoping there’s a room full of them that I haven’t been in.
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“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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“I’ve never really thought about it before, but it’s a miracle how...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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One of my good friends from Uni managed to not only graduate, but graduated with an excellent grade despite having finished reading one book throughout the entire course, and he only finished reading said book because he was frightened of the professor. I don’t know how he did it (or why he chose an English degree when he has such a hatred for books), but I’ve been trying to get him to...
April 2012
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“Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate to...”
– Steven Millhauser, “Eisenheim the Illusionist” in The Barnum Museum
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“Rain lashed the windows - hammer-blows of rain. At any moment the panes were...”
– Steven Millhauser, “The Sepia Postcard” in The Barnum Museum. As I read this passage, the rain at my window suddenly became louder and heavier, and died away seconds after I finished reading it. It was a little spooky, but lovely. I adore the sound of rain at my window.
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“How will a ‘star’ and an actor mix? They’ll have to find...”
– Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me
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March 2012
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“That’s what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff...”
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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“If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things...”
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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Sign of a good book: when you are forced to look up from the novel that you are reading and it takes you a few seconds to actually leave the world of the book. The Games have just begun.
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February 2012
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I’m going to Prague tomorrow until Tuesday and am only taking hand luggage. For a split second I considered sacrificing the book I packed to make everything fit. Then I removed an item of clothing instead. No regrets.
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“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure....”
– Chris McCandless, quoted in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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“The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
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“I have always found the times when another person recognises you to be strangely...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
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“Papa said scientists speculated that from the moon, the earth looked blue. That...”
– Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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“The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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“Secrets have power […] And that power diminishes when they are shared, so...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
January 2012
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“Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and as beautiful and hopeless as a...”
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Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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“Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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December 2011
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lullabyxo asked: I haaaaate that I can't ask you things anonymously! I was all set to come here and write you some Taylor Hanson/Harry Potter fan fiction, but the fun is lost if you know it was me. Because obv you never would have guessed.
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November 2011
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“Hundreds of years ago, the village relied solely on fishing. I have a book of...”
– Simon Van Booy, “Distant Ships” in The Secret Lives of People in Love
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