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Quotes; random, of course.
"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
-Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
-Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
"She'd run out of there as if Hannibal Lecter were chasing her with a bottle of A.1. sauce."-Marissa Guibord, Warped
I love A.1. Sauce!!!
This is really long but I really loved it#1
“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico
Sorry, Lol. But it's too long for me to read.
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Nicole D. wrote: "This is really long but I really loved it#1
“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet sp..."
LOL!! :D That is so great! I kept saying to myself as I read it, "That's me!"
Thanks for sharing, Nicole. :D
From "The Inheritance" (the movie)"Why am I such a stubborn old fool?"
"So we can tell you we love you despite your being a stubborn old fool."
"If I'd been your father, I'd have shot me."
Nicole D., I LIKE that quote. Me gusta mucho. :D I think everyone here is probably like that, especially the lost closet space and the drinks that go cold because you're engrossed in the story. I need a new bookshelf. My cupeth overflow :) (aka, I'm out of room)
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" When life gives you lemons, make the best lemonade in the world, market it, then roll in the dough"Alisha Brys
“Why, her father would turn in his grave--well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude]”― Georgette Heyer, No Wind of Blame
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
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― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
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R.G wrote: "" ..and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth." Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte"another Wuthering Heights fan.I thought I was all alone in BCMI with my love for Wuthering Heights.
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"No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not."~ Sherlock Holmes (the movie featuring Robert Downey, Jr.)
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”― Alan Bennett
@R.G Wuthering Heights is my favorite book tied with Pride and Prejudice.I have read it I don't know how many times sense I got a few years ago.
R.G wrote: "Nicole D. wrote: "“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”― Alan Bennett
@R.G Wuthering H..."
I know.I have seen 2 of the adaptations and it don't even come close to doing the book justice.It is a very haunting book.Beautiful yet horriable at the same time.It is a very hard book to example for me to others.I wish Emily Bronte would have been able to write more books before her death and that she hadn't died so young.
R.G wrote: "“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons"
I love that and so true.
Who would've thought we'd have a black son before we met a Democrat? ~ Sean Tuohy "The Blind Side"
"An ant has no quarell with a boot.""Are you planning to step on us?"
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"Do you get it now? Ant, boot"
The Avengers: Loki and Fury
Sakerra wrote: ""An ant has no quarell with a boot.""Are you planning to step on us?"
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"Do you get it now? Ant, boot"
The Avengers: Loki and Fury"
LOVE that movie!! :D
The last time I was in New York, I kinda... broke Harlem.~ Dr. Bruce Banner "the Hulk" (The Avengers)
"He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart. She stood at the other end of the rink, talking to a lady. There seemed to be nothing very special in her dress, nor her pose; but for Levin she was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around."-- (referring to Kitty & Levin) --- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Some more from "The Avengers" :)Son, you've got a condition.
~ Man speaking to Dr. Banner after seeng him as the Hulk :P
You people are so petty... and tiny.
~ Thor
Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.
~ Tony Stark "Iron Man"
Pepper: Phil! Come in.
Stark: Phil? Uh, his name is Agent.
There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that.
~ Steve Rogers "Captain America"
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Carol wrote: ""He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart. She stood at the other end of the rink, talking to a lady. There seemed to be nothing very special in her dress, nor her pose;..."Love this Carol. I haven't finished Anna Karenina yet but I started it a while ago and was enjoying it. I just put it aside to read other things for a while.
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Son, you've got a condition.
~ Man speaking to Dr. Banner after seeng him as the Hulk :P
You people are so petty... and tiny.
~ Thor
Dr. Banner, your work is u..."
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love the last one; and the one about phil! ;D
"Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
“I’m not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasn’t me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
Lady Grace wrote: "“I’m not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasn’t me..."Love this one! LOL! ;D
Kim N - Lost-In-A-Book wrote: "Carol wrote: ""He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart. She stood at the other end of the rink, talking to a lady. There seemed to be nothing very special in her dress,..."You must finish it! I just love the relationship between Levin and Kitty -- especially their courtship. Just precious!
"Up is down." That's just maddeningly unhelpful.~ Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
“A good turnout at church today. It had nothing to do with the mild weather and a desire to gossip and everything to do with my oratory skills, I am perfectly convinced. Indeed, if not for Mrs Attwood's new bonnet, I would have had the ladies' undivided attention. The gentlemen I was more certain of. They had no interest in bonnets, new or otherwise, and listened in pleasing silence, broken only by an occasional snore.”― Amanda Grange, Henry Tilney's Diary
I thought these was funny and I plan on rereading Tilney's diary soon
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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” -- Captain Frederick Wentworth, Persuasion by Jane Austen
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"Man is one step from the brink of insanity."-Alisha Brys
"If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done."
Aerykah wrote: ""If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.""excellent!
Aerykah wrote: "Great quote, Carol! Love that! :)"
I love the book & I also have the 2007 DVD Persuasion with Rupert Penry-Jones & Sally Hawkins.
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