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| Hello, beautiful.
Long time no post, right? Right.
I have been on the go constantly so I've not had much time to update.
So I added a few extra pictures as a treat.
ENJOY.
It’s like in the great stories - the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something, that there’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. - Sam Gamgee +++ Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship. - Alfred A. Montapert
 Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. - Ray Bradbury +++ You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling. - Mitch Albom 
There is no person in the world who is made to handle every punch that’s thrown at them. We aren’t made that way. In fact, we’re made to get mad, upset, sad, be hurt, stumble and fall. We aren’t supposed to be able to handle everything. But that’s what makes us stronger in the end, by learning from the things that hurt us most. - Unknown +++ Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies 
You are special. A blessing. A miracle. There is no other person like you in the world. You have the capacity for anything. Let your light shine. - Unknown +++ Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. - Jacques Prévert 
You can't give a hug without getting a hug. - Unknown +++ If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. - Walter Anderson 
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. - Joe Walsh +++
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. - Mignon McLaughlin 
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato +++ It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. - Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin +++ What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. - Mignon McLaughlin
People always think something's all true. - J.D. Salinger +++ I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. - J.D. Salinger 
I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it. - J.D. Salinger +++ When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. - J.D. Salinger 
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. - J.D. Salinger +++ Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. - J.D. Salinger 
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - The Simpsons +++ Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. - The Simpsons 
Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos. - The Simpsons +++ Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. - J.K. Rowling 
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. - Hermann Hesse +++
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. - Orson Welles 
Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60." - Nicholas Murray Butler +++ We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. - Norman Cousins 
He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. - Ring Lardner +++ Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone. - Forrest Loremint 
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. - Sydney Smith +++ We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? - Francis Bacon 
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. - Lord Chesterfield +++ You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington 
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton +++ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
 I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton +++ I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? - Maurice Maeterlinck
 To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. - Jean Anouilh +++ Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. - Edward Somers 
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. - Edgar Friedenberg +++ Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. - Fran Lebowitz 
Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. - Unknown +++ What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. - Mignon McLaughlin 
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. - Brecht +++ It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. - Mick Jagger 
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. - Antonio Porchia +++ There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. - Charlotte Dacre 
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Is anyone else getting their results at the moment?
Mine will be in my hands in about an hour.
I am terrified because I am fairly certain I have failed, for various reasons.
In the words of SATC, I think I might poughkeepsie my pants.
:(
Wish me luck. XXX
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| Hello, butterflies.
I am working on my book site so hopefully it will be up and running soon.
I am happy, happy, HAPPY.
I am learning that there are people in this world who are amazingly kind. People who enrich my life without seeking anything in return. How did I not see that there were so many beautiful people before?
:) Notice some today. 
Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing’s wrong, but every breath hurts. - Greg Behrendt
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. – The Little Prince
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart +++ I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. - Oprah Winfrey 
Feelings never do make sense. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started. - Blair Waldorf +++ True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. - Jane Austen +++ I believe that what you present to the world and what you are on the inside are two different things, and that you know that what you are on the inside is something that’s worth saving. - A Million Little Pieces 
Cause even if it breaks your heart to be just friends, if you really care about someone, you’ll take the hit. - Scrubs +++ And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head. - Into the Wild 
Anyone can fly, all you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams
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Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it. - Braveheart
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. - Jonathan Safran Foer +++ I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. - The Perks of Being a Wallflower 
You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. - Homer Simpson +++ Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t. - Chuck Palahniuk
 I think that sometimes we love people so much that we become numb to it because if we actually felt how much we really loved them, it would kill us. That doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means your heart is too big. - Riding in Cars with Boys +++ Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t. - Chuck Palahniuk 
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up. - Wayne Coyne +++ When you grow up, your heart dies. - The Breakfast Club
 It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. - F. Scott Fitzgerald +++ I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it. Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it. - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. - Baltasar Gracian +++ All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. - Robert Musil +++ Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. - Louis Céline 
I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. - A.A. Milne +++ To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. - W. Macneile Dixon
 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson +++ We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. - Henry Miller 
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. - Benjamin Franklin +++ Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne +++ Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. - Ansel Adams 
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. - Edward Somers +++ Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. - Joann Thomas 
There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult. - Harry And Joan Mier
+++ There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." - Dave Barry 
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Comment and subscribe, you wonderful people.
I love you all.
:)
I will comment back this time, I've just been so sleepy. | | |
| I am so bored that I made a hideout in a box and threw little sticks at my sister to annoy her. Maturity is dominant I see.
Would anyone subscribe if I made another site dedicated to reading, with reviews and quotes and such? Hmm.
Maybe a few pictures also.
I think I may do it for my own benefit, even if no one else reads it.
Let me know what you think?
 Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. - Hafiz of Persia +++ Blood is thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood. - Unknown 
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. - Jacques Deval +++ And if you look a little closer, you'll see that if a person believes that life is terrible, they’ll constantly look for proof of this, to confirm their view of the world. They’ll find quotes and situations and events in their life and magnify them a hundred times. If a person believes that life is wonderful, they’ll look for the corresponding signage and behave in a similar manner to the previous person with their view of the world. Often, this is the same person on different days of the week. - I Wrote This For You 
I’ve learned that nobody can do much without somebody else. You’ve got to have friends. - The Public Enemy +++ Be honest. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept. - Bono 
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. - Saint Augustine +++ You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King 
There are things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves it’s the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It’s far easier than telling ourselves the truth. - Jodi Picoult +++ Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. - Unknown 
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe +++ We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. - Virginia Satir 
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. - Robert Southey +++ Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach 
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. - The Five People You Meet In Heaven +++ I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? - John Lennon 
Sometimes on the way to what's supposed to happen, something even better happens. - Third Rock From The Sun +++ Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. - Andre Maurois 
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content. - Bob Dylan +++ At every moment of our lives, we have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. - Paulo Coelho 
You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place. - South Park +++ This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. - Chuck Palahniuk 
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? - Chuck Palahniuk +++ On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. - Chuck Palahniuk 
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. - Chuck Palahniuk +++ You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. - Chuck Palahniuk 
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. - Chuck Palahniuk +++ You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. - The Sopranos 
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. - Norbet Platt +++ There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. - William Makepeace Thackeray 
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. - Mark Epstein +++ Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. - Albert Schweitzer 
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. - Dodie Smith +++ No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. - Murray Banks 
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. - Paul Rodriguez +++ I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres 
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. - Unknown +++ The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. - C.C. Scott 
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So, what does everyone think to the book site idea? Hmm. I'll ponder it.
Everything seems so trivial lately. I am happy but it's a struggle sometimes; I worry that I shall slip soon.
Please comment and subscribe, it's my only entertainment. LOVE YOU ALL. | | |
| Hello, little gems.
I am updating as promised.
I have lots of lovely photos and treats for you, as long as you comment they will come really nice and snappily.
And I assume that you do want them, yes yes?
:)
EMAIL BACK, PEOPLE. The silence is actually starting to hurt.
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." - Sylvia Plath :|
 My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. - Tom Stoppard +++ I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if
it would interest you. - James Thurber 
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope +++ He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. - Antonio Porchia 
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. - Douglas Adams +++ He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. - Antonio Porchia 
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. - William Wiley +++ No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. - Terry Pratchett 
Let your working ideas go for a picnic - sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. - Carrie Latet +++ The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. - Susan Sontag 
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard +++ You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. - Antonio Porchia 
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. - Bill Copeland +++ Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - M. Kathleen Casey
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? - Damon Knight +++ Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. - Robert Fulghum 
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. - Joseph Campbell +++ Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. - Ani Difranco 
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. - Bertolt Brecht +++ If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. - Charley Reese 
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. - Chuck Palahniuk +++ In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. - Nathaniel Hawthorne +++ I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone. - Sylvia Plath 
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else. - J.K. Rowling +++ We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. - J.K. Rowling 
I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. - Truman Capote +++ Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver 
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. - Barbara Kingsolver
+++ Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? - Barbara Kingsolver 
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver +++
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. - Barbara Kingsolver
 Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. - Barbara Kingsolver +++ She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. - Harper Lee 
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. - Harper Lee +++ As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. - Harper Lee 
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Still no emails, even as I finish this.
Sometimes, the world sucks. I mean, I'm going to go on having faith, but seriously.
I am expecting like 5. Does no one check their email?
Perhaps I need to remove myself from the keyboard more.
Comment and subscribe, loves.
I might update nice and quickly again. :) | | |
| I am going to see Harry Potter tonight. Yes, I know I took a while. I just think it'll be a disappointment.
What did you all think to it?
No photographs today, just images with words.
I hope you like it. HELP ME THINK OF TO-DOS. :)
Mwah.
 I don’t doubt myself because of you. I feel like the best version of myself when I’m with you, and that makes me doubt everything else. - Keeping the Faith +++ The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, “No, I’m happy for you”? That’s when it’s really sad." - John Mayer 
I’m always anxious thinking I’m not living my life to the fullest, y’know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I’m not wasting one second of the little time I have." - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind +++ Love isn't an act. It's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love-why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over. - Brian Moore 
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them. - Anais Nin +++ If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Allow your intuition, or spirit, to save you from heartache. - Oprah Winfrey 
You couldn’t just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn’t like a light switch, easy to shut on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. To me, it didn’t seem complicated at all. In fact, it was the simplest thing in the world. - Along for the Ride +++ My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying 'No'. - Girl, Interrupted 
I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you’re not gonna make it. Believe in yourself. No matter what. They laughed at the Wright brothers. They laughed at Thomas Edison. They laughed at Disney. Study the greats and become greater. - Michael Jackson +++ Ever since I was a little kid, like eight or nine, I could sort of control things with my mind. - Jim Halpert 
We rarely recognize the significant moments in our lives while they’re happening. We grow complacent with ideas, things, people, and we take them for granted. It is usually not until that person or thing is taken away from you, that you realize how very special it is and how much it really means to you. Show the special people in your life you love them. Appreciate everything you have. Appreciate every precious moment. - Unknown +++ What’s your name,’ Coraline asked the cat. ‘Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?’
‘Cats don’t have names,’ it said.
‘No?’ said Coraline.
‘No,’ said the cat. ‘Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.
- Coraline 
And sometimes, we can fall in love with someone for all the wrong reasons, and still love them after all the hurt, because sometimes, and most times, we can’t pick who we love. And even though we know we shouldn’t love them, we do and always will, because there are just a small number of people in this world who will “get” us for reasons we can’t explain, even when they shouldn’t. - Arminda Meer
+++ You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - Looking For Alaska
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. - Uglies +++ Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. - Drew Barrymore 
If we can forgive what’s been done to us, if we can forgive what we’ve done to others. If we can leave all of our stories behind, our being victims and villains - only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still wait here, while we’re still victims, waiting to be saved. Waiting to be discovered while we suffer. – Chuck Palahniuk +++ It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. - Stephen Chbosky 
Follow the spiders. Why couldn’t it be ‘follow the butterflies?’ - Ron Weasley +++ Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. - Alice in Wonderland
'How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?' asked Dorothy.
'I don’t know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?' answered the Scarecrow.
- The Wizard of Oz
+++ Don't be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You're deeply missable. However, he's still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because
he's choosing, every day, not to be with you. - He's Just Not That Into You 
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth +++ I want to be free of you… the way you, obviously, are free of me. - The Count of Monte Cristo 
So, yesterday Dwight found half a joint in the parking lot. Which is unfortunate because, as it turns out, Dwight finding drugs is more dangerous than most people using drugs. - Jim Halpert +++ A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, “Oi. You can’t leave that lyin’ there.” And the man says, “No. It’s not a lion. It’s a giraffe". - 28 Days Later
 Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Dylan +++ Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. - Paul Eldridge 
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. - Nathaniel Hawthorne +++ Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. - African Proverb 
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson +++ Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. - Emme Woodhull-Bäche 
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. - D.M. Thomas +++ We are asleep with compasses in our hands. - W.S. Merwin 
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. - James McNeill Whistler +++ Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. - William Wordsworth 
You're only as sick as your secrets. - Author Unknown +++ I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. - Benito Perez Galdos 
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READING LIST
Birdsong
L Is For Lawless
Echo Park
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Q Is For Quarry
Charlotte Gray
Where Rainbows End
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
The Cure For Death By Lightning
Heidi
Brave New World
Northern Lights
The Edge Of Reason
The Liar
White Cargo
The Little Prisoner
The Jungle
Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
Pride And Prejudice
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Dear Fatty
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Blackberry Wine
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Cold Mountain
The Paperchase
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
Northanger Abbey
High Fidelity
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
The Diary Of A Young Girl
Running With Scissors
The God Of Small Things
Cloud Atlas
The Wind In The Willows
Treasure Island
Peter Pan
Persuasion
A Room Of One’s Own
The Children Of The New Forest
Inkheart
Carpe Jugulum
Red Dragon
To The Lighthouse
The Labours Of Hercules
Flesh House
Emma
Chasing The Dime
Animal Farm
The Lost Boy
A Child Called ‘It’
A Man Named Dave
P Is For Peril
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Step On It, Cupid
F Is For Fugitive
The Last Coyote
Standing In The Shadows
Bad Moon Rising
The Drowning Man
Under The Greenwood Tree
Down And Out In Paris And London
The Da Vinci Code
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Tuesdays With Morrie
For One More Day
The Lovely Bones
Far From The Madding Crowd
Five Quarters Of Orange
The Black Dahlia
The Colour Of Magic
In The Springtime Of The Year
T Is For Trespass
Knots & Crosses
Final Jeopardy
Jack And Jill
Cold Hit
The Kills
Monster
The Lonely Dead
Little Women
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Jigsaw Man
The Virgin Suicides
The Book Thief
The Secret Scripture
The Wasp Factory
Slaughterhouse 5
The Bell Jar
Picking Up The Pieces
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
A Spot Of Bother
Brighton Rock
Change Of Heart
The Catcher In The Rye
Franny And Zooey
Lock & Key
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
RE-READING
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HARRY POTTER
RE-READING
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FOR SCHOOL
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
Mrs Dalloway
The Hours
If any numbers are missing, let me know. It went a bit crazy. Help me think of ideas!
365 THINGS IN 365 DAYS
[As of 04/08/09]
001. Complete Xanga reading list
002. Get all PostSecret books
003. Complete happy book
004. Give Blood
005. Hawaii
006. Complete book for Lance
007. Mail PostSecret books to a stranger
008. Hug BS
009. Finish FanFiction story
010. Get a boyfriend
011. Go back to America
012. Finish wall collage
013. Fill the box for BS
014. Open the letters
015. Sort out room
016. Go to the seaside
017. Go to CS Church
018. Read the Bible
019. Get a tattoo
020. Grow my nails
021. Get my ear pierced again
022. Go to the theatre
023. Meet Jules
024. Hug Bowles
025. Hug Draper
026. Go to a wedding
027. Get rid of stretch marks
028. Buy a Big Issue
029. Bake brownies
030. Go to a theme park
031. Get a camera
032. Rent a rowing boat
033. Go camping
034. Have a bake sale
035. Have a caricature done
036. Read 100 books
037. Get something published
038. Complete my novel
039. Read ‘Science and Health’
040. Get 500 subscribers
041. Go vegan for a week
042. Learn to like my feet
043. Buy a pair of Jimmy Choos
044. Knit something
045. Visit someone elderly
046. Make a new friend
047. Kiss someone
048. Feed the ducks
049. Make a magic potion
050. Roll in the mud
051. Wear PJs into town
052. Start driving lessons
053. Send a card to PostSecret
054. Fill a camera with strangers' smiles
055. Go to Paris
056. Find a fossil
057. Eat candyfloss
058. Make someone proud
059. Cry in front of BS
060. Pick strawberries
061. Scream my biggest fear out loud
062. Buy someone flowers
063. Receive flowers
064. Get teeth whitened
065. Energy drink party
066. Receive a great compliment
067. Get my eyebrows shaped
068. London
069. ‘Surprise me’ Starbucks
070. Save an animal
071. Decorate a pot
072. Cook dinner for someone
073. Psychology extra credit
074. Eat at a 5 star restaurant
075. See someone famous
076. Make a speech
077. Teach someone something valuable
078. Go a day without caffeine
079. Get a watch
080. Enter a poetry contest
081. Vintage shopping
082. Tell BS what she means to me
083. Get a massage
084. Barbeque
085. Fish in rockpools
086. Get legs waxed
087. Make a seashell necklace
088. Win a contest
089. Get a job
090. Eat Thai
091. Talk about the weather to a stranger
092. Have an English cream tea
093. Finish a crossword puzzle
094. Send a message in a bottle
095. Leave post-it notes in library books
096. Visit an art gallery
097. Drop Economics
098. Go to a concert
099. Watch every Nicole Kidman film
100. See live stand up
101. Join running club
102. Go to the cinema alone
103. Safari park
104. Dye hair
105. Look at constellations
106. Confess to something
107. Make a movie
108. Tell a ghost story
109. Paint eggs
110. Go to Youth
111. Fly a kite
112. Write a song
113. Have a treasure hunt
114. Sign a petition
115. Play dress up
116. Babysit
117. Decorate box
118. Water fight
119. Make an advice book
120. Go swimming
121. Learn a poem by heart
122. Go beach combing
123. Be called ‘beautiful’
124. Have a picnic
125. Famous Five game
126. Karaoke
127. Admit I’m wrong
128. Buy ‘Pushing Daisies’ box sets
129. Write an article
130. Go to the Victoria and Albert Museum
131. Touch a frog
132. Wash the car
133. Get a car
134. Give a homeless person a sandwich
135. Catch butterflies
136. Go on a bike ride
137. Try power kiting
138. Watch the sunset
139. Get a hair cut I like
140. Write to Sally
141. Set up Creative Writing
142. Learn to like water
143. Make a school scrapbook
144. Fill cookbook with recipes
145. Letter to Sophia
146. Plant flowers
147. Skim stones
148. Add something to memory box
149. Ride a rollercoaster
150. Ski
151. Go snorkelling
152. Kayak
153. Buy a lottery ticket
154. Go rock-climbing
155. Paintballing
156. Watch Season 4
157. Watch ‘The Shining’
159. Make taffy
160. Go on a nature walk
161. Stand up for my beliefs
162. Stick something on a signpost
163. Go bouldering
164. Wear fairy wings
165. Try tofu
166. Buy ‘Coraline’
167. School without make-up
168. Have a spontaneous conversation
169. Find the perfect lipstick
170. Wear face paint in public
171. Get photo wrapping paper
172. Wear hair in a plait
173. Feed the birds
174. Make a bird cake
175. Help at the Hospice
176. Take a photo of my back
177. Make a daisy chain
178. Paint on freckles
179. Fundraise
180. Buy chunky headphones
181. Help someone with homework
182. Obtain candle
183. Make a sundae
184. Finish flower guide
185. Wish on an eyelash
186. Count thunder
187. Meet someone for coffee
188. Go for a run
189. Make potato stamps
190. Play the Revels game
191. Dip my toes in the river
192. Get ‘The Young Victoria’
193. Make a proper website
194. Have a train journey
195. Take a bus
196. Make a fire with a magnifying glass
197. Buy ‘Suburban Shootout Series 2’
198. Develop a new nickname
199. Climb a tree
200. Get a new fragrance
201. Learn to write my name in Japanese
202. Learn my name in sign language
203. Catch someone lying
204. Wear French plaits
205. Play the New Year game
206. Kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s
207. Make paper
208. Make a candle
209. Hold a baby
210. Feed a lamb
211. Ride a Ferris wheel
212. Go sailing
213. Play a board game
214. Make paperclip bracelets
215. Go to Bluebell Woods
216. Look through a telescope
217. Go on a ghost walk
218. Go on a trampoline in the rain
219. Make pancakes
220. Get a henna tattoo
221. Get absolutely drenched
222. Splash in puddles with wellingtons on
223. Eat a whole pot of Ben & Jerry’s
224. Buy all US Office DVDs
225. Make all recipes in cookbook
226. Fill cookbook with photos
227. Get Lauren’s brownie recipe
228. Do the washing
229. Wash up
230. Get an autograph
231. Perform in a play
232. Apply to Uni
233. Visit Rachel
234. Mimic Kat for the day
235. Make a card for Marguerite
236. Hug Lance
237. Get a photo with Hammy
238. Buy new school clothes
239. Make a Tumblr
240. Get all books returned
241. Customise my Blackberry
242. Eat a whole jar of Fluff
243. Watch ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’
244. Make a public PostSecret wall
245. Convince BS to read my PostSecret book
246. Send a gift to PareyFairy
247. Burn Critical Thinking notes
248. Paint each nail a different colour
249. Bake a cake for someone
250. Build a sandcastle
251. Go to a fashion show
252. Start a diary
253. Back up my memory drive
254. Smash open money pot
255. Highlight my favourite book quotes
256. Dress up as a fallen angel
257. Backcomb hair
258. Revamp iPod
259. Use the camcorder
260. Have an adventure
261. Feed the horses
262. Get Janet’s fudge recipe
263. Buy a huge dictionary
264. Inspire someone
265. Make someone cry in a good way
266. Be hugged unexpectedly
267. Make a volcano
268. Watch Paul McKenna
269. Go to a christening
270. See Jacob and Niamh
271. Contact Emily
272. Make a travel map
273. Make a lava lamp
274. Make salt dough figures
275. Make a grumpy person laugh
276. Crazy dance
277. Spray hair blue
278. Get a CSI T-shirt
279. Start yoga
280. Decorate keyboard keys
281. Get a proper bra fitting
282. Get a typewriter
283. Write a ‘Bucket List’
284. Watch all Monty Python films
285. Watch ‘Boogeyman’
286. Get some new specs
287. Complete a puzzler
288. Do a jigsaw
289. Own every NK film
290. Complete A-Z help guide
291. Sort out personal statement
292. Hug Woody
293. Make an AGS guidebook
294. Watch ‘The Virgin Suicides’ again
295. Hug a kitten
296. Get a ‘family’ portrait done
297. Make a compost bin
298. Write a letter to my sister
299. Know my guilty pleasure
300. Get some proper running shoes
301. Donate 100,000 grains of rice at FreeRice.com (2,100/100,000)
302. Hug a tree
303. Go to a book signing and get book signed
304. Walk in the rain with no umbrella
305. Watch a black and white film
306. Build a fairy house
307. Build a fort
308. Finger paint
309. Write and illustrate a children’s book
310. Watch a home video
311. Run as fast as I can
312. Start up a swear jar
313. Spend an hour in the library
314. Don’t complain for an entire day
315. Find a note in a book
316. Wrap my own gift
317. Spray someone with the hose
318. Play badminton
319. Win at chess
320. Win at checkers
321. Play Trivial Pursuit
322. Text and email everyone who matters to me
323. Get photobooth pics
324. Pay for something for a stranger
325. Give someone an umbrella
326. Buy proper cheese
327. Look at everything in memory box
328. Look at all photographs
329. Wear shorts without tights
330. Write a list of my blessings
331. Decorate other wall
332. Get emails made into a book
333. Make review website
334. Give BS her gift
335. Give box
336. Actually sing a hymn
337. Actually meet up with Lauren
338. Make a ring
339. Subscribe to eBible
340. Finish rehearsal week
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