The Januaries

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Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:10 -0500

Macy: Wes, come on, are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:00 -0500

Macy: Wes, come on, are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you?
Wes: Let’s get back to the idea of you being perfect.
Macy: Seriously. What’s it like?
Wes: Being perfect? I wouldn’t know.
Macy: Not being perfect. Being…gorgeous.
Wes: Again, I wouldn’t know. You tell me.
Macy: Donneven. We’re not talking about me.
Wes: We could be.
Macy: I’m not gorgeous.
Wes: Sure you are.
Macy: You have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
Wes: Bit?
Macy: You know what I mean.
Wes: And you have that whole blonde, cool and collected, perfect smart girl thing going on.
Macy: You’re the boy all the girls want to rebel with.
Wes: You are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

The Truth About Forever

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:18:52 -0500

The Truth About Forever:

What Sarah has to say about her book.

"Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. It’s like forever,..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:27:00 -0500

“Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. It’s like forever, always changing. For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you’d want to have spent it?”

- The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen

ladidaladida: for franny glass // will stratton

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:27:18 -0500

ladidaladida:

for franny glass // will stratton

"Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:22:38 -0500

“Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and for every else to rave about me doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of splash.”

- Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via bingodied)

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:22:09 -0500

(via wanderlustwearhaus) (via my name’s lame.)

"I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:20:19 -0500

“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

- Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via gilligankane)

thisisjen: [via]

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:17:13 -0500

thisisjen:

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The Truth About Forever

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:59:00 -0500

We love her books. We especially love the covers because they’re probably the reason we started reading them in the first place. Oh, Sarah Dessen, what would teenage girls do without your insight on the bleak world of high school and improbably perfect love stories?

In, what I would call, Dessen’s best novel, we see a girl who is trying to rebuild her life based on perfection after the traumatic death of her father. Over the summer Macy meets a group of people who show her that life isn’t perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a heart-wrenching, romantic (of course) story that you won’t be able to put down. The perfect cure for the januaries.

Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:37:34 -0500

Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author:

Really funny. Check it out.

Cat's Cradle

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:34:02 -0500

Overall, I really enjoyed it. It was an easy read, and definitely compelling. I wouldn’t really consider it a january-type read, but it was still really great (I mean, obviously, it is a classic).

Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of this century’s most important works…and Vonnegut at his very best. (description from the back of the book).

Currently Reading: bl2 coverspy: Franny and Zooey, J. D....

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:34:00 -0500

Currently Reading: bl2

coverspy:

Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger (F, 20s, brown hair, nose ring, F train) http://bit.ly/9BJqxb

Not really related at all, but a good...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:33:33 -0500

Not really related at all, but a good song.

heymikewaskom:

Harry Chapin - Cat’s In The Cradle

"If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:14:07 -0500

“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”

- Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut.

From The Final Book of Bokonon.

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"All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:09:00 -0500

“All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”

- Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon (via exinfinutum)

"There were many dogs, but not one barked. There were many infants, but not one cried. Here and there..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:54:00 -0500

“There were many dogs, but not one barked. There were many infants, but not one cried. Here and there someone coughed - and that was all.”

- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

Currently Reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; bl #1b

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:22:00 -0500

Currently Reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; bl #1b

"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:15:40 -0500

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”

- Paper Towns, John Green

highschoollover: (via becca cahan)

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:15:23 -0500

highschoollover:

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