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  • Quoted: Etta and Otto and Russell and James

    We’re all scared, most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren’t. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.

    Being Tori

    11.26.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, Images, Quoted
    am reading, Book Challenge, CanLit, Emma Hooper, Etta and Otto and Russel and James
  • Quoted: The Revenant

    The boy came to believe that going west was more than just a fancy for someplace new. He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain.

    Being Tori

    10.22.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, Images, Quoted
    am reading, history, Hugh Glass, Michael Punke, The Revenant
  • Quoted: Bonjour Tristesse

    “I longed for her to ask me, ‘Well, what is the matter?’ and to ply me with questions, force me to tell her everything . . . then I should no longer be in torment.” What seventeen-year-old girl hasn’t thought this?

    Being Tori

    09.26.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, Images, Quoted
    beach read, Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan, French lit, Lara Recommended
  • Baby Driver

    Phenomenal. There is literally nothing about this movie that I didn’t love. I saw it three times in the space of four days and cannot wait to own it so I can watch it again whenever I want. If you have not seen it, you should do that right now. Run, don’t walk. And when […]

    Being Tori

    08.30.17
    Movies, One-Liners
    action, Ansel Elgort, Baby, Baby Driver, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, musical, TAKE IT!
  • Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

    If I had never read the Hunger Games trilogy or the Lunar Chronicles or the Mortal Instruments, or watched the Divergent movies or The 100 television series, I would most certainly have been blown out of the water by this dystopian YA novel. However, this tale—about a teenaged girl living in a downtrodden society ruled by […]

    Being Tori

    08.29.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, One-Liners
    Dystopian, fantasy, Mare Barrow, Red Queen, Series, take it or leave it, Victoria Aveyard, YA
  • Quoted: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

    Being Tori

    08.24.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, Images, Quoted
    Alex Haley, am reading, Autobiography, banned book, Book Challenge, Malcolm X, non-fiction, Quoted
  • The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

    I have been enchanted by Ami McKay since her first novel, The Birth House, and it seems she still has me under her spell. (See what I did there? This book is about witches. You get it.) With both The Birth House and The Virgin Cure, McKay set a precedent as an author of great skill and imagination, and […]

    Being Tori

    08.16.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, One-Liners
    Ami McKay, CanLit, fiction, historical fiction, novel, sequel, TAKE IT!, The Witches of New York, touch of magic
  • Saga by Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

    I had no idea what I was going to read for our graphic novel category, but before I even had time to fret about it, the lovely Rosie came to my rescue—she sent me the first volume of Saga through the mail. Snail mail no less! And I’m going to tell you right now, I’m glad she […]

    Being Tori

    08.08.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, One-Liners
    action, Brian K. Vaughn, fantasy, Fiona Staples, graphic novel, Saga, TAKE IT!, Volume One, war
  • Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

    Hang on to your hats, folks. My first post in nearly three months just happens to be for a book that I adored and from which I scribbled down pages of notes and quotes, so this might take a while . . . If you’ve been paying attention, you probably know by now that I […]

    Being Tori

    08.08.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, One-Liners, Quoted
    Anna Kendrick, Book Challenge, celebrity memoir, haha funny, longer than one line, memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, TAKE IT!
  • Quoted: The Witches of New York

    He shook his head. “A skeptic is only interested in being right. I’m interested in finding the truth.” “Even if there’s a chance your theories are wrong?” “Especially then, because it means I might be on my way to discovering something new.”

    Being Tori

    05.18.17
    Book Challenge 2017, Books, Images, Quoted
    am reading, Ami McKay, Book Challenge, CanLit, fiction, Quoted, TAKE IT!, Witches of New York
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