30/366: Cold milk after an hour of torture :) (Taken with instagram)
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The Weepies — Same Changes
Arms around my body
Kisses on my skin
I walk away
I walk away
But he lingers
Maybe it should matter
More to be myself
I walk away
I walk away
But he lingers
And everyone says
This love will change you
Well I ask, does anything ever stay the same
No, no, no
Just same changes
:)
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She may be young but she only likes old things,
And modern music it ain’t to her taste,
She loves the natural light, captured in black and white,
She sees mirages of mountain ranges,
Within a blink of her eyes it changes,
Back to the open plain, oh no she can’t explain.
"Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
He showed up at my apartment a little after 9 and as soon as I opened the door I started giggling and he was smiling big. Neither one us knew how each other dressed. I wear jeans and a beat up t-shirt almost every day to work, and he comes in during his lunch breaks wearing a suit and tie. He…
He’s a keeper Kyoko! :)
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
I read this during probably one of the happiest weeks I’ve ever had. That was a bad decision, because just a couple of pages in I was already crying.
I was laughing and crying, sometimes slow, like how a child starts to cry, and sometimes its so quick I didn’t even realize I was already sobbing into a pillow.
John Green, why you wrote such an amazing book that made me fall into a cry-inducing curse, I will never know.
The story is about Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group. That is the only thing I’m telling you about the book. You can listen/watch John Green read the first two chapters here and here. Then tell me if you’re not intrigued by it. Even just by a little.
The hype surrounding The Fault in Our Stars lived up to it. Green wrote The Fault in Our Stars in a way where you feel every single thing they felt. It didn’t matter if you were a teenager or had cancer or you weren’t, you’d feel it. He reaches into the darkest corners of your heart and tug it enough for you to feel like absolute crap. You will cry. That I can promise you.
There are a lot of lines from the book that I had written down, but let me just pick three for this post. Reading these lines made me think of someone in particular, someone who made that particular week worth smiling for.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities… There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbound set. But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson
A Jack the Ripper story set in modern London, how could you not be intrigued? I wish I didn’t read this in the middle of the night where every single sound was amplified and my scared self didn’t have to freak out so much. Maureen Johnson wrote a hauntingly beautiful story about a transfer student from Louisiana, Rory Deveaux, and her start at a boarding school in London.
I was so so thrilled at the end of the book, because I knew it was going to be a part of a series. I wanted to know what happened next, because there will be a cliffhanger at the end, there, I said it! You will want to read the next book, even if its ten times creepier than the first one.
And I also loved that Doctor Who reference. Like, really. This book! Amazing.
The only thing that I probably didn’t like as much was the whole Rory-Jerome thing. I felt like that there wasn’t enough to go with it. I can picture Rory with Stephen, but not with Jerome.
This was the quote that I really, really liked:
“Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom.”
1. Taking pictures with you.
2. Having a Harry Potter marathon in my living room because you haven’t seen any of the movies and I plan on changing that. We’ve seen Sorcerer’s Stone and the Chamber of Secrets. It was like watching an adorable little kid. So cute.
3. Babysitting my goddaughter for an afternoon. We watched Yu Yu Hakusho in my room and she was just so happy.
4. Swiss Miss’ Fudge Bars are da bomb. 100 calories but so, so good.
5. Eating my mom’s homemade chili. You had seconds.
