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.
Tag: am reading
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.
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.
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.”
Quoted: Love in the Time of Cholera
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Quoted: The Three Musketeers
D’Artagnan, the original playa:
Do not depend upon me, madame, for the next meeting; since my convalescence I have so many affairs of this kind on my hands, that I am forced to regulate them a little. When your turn comes, I shall have the honour to inform you of it. I kiss your hands.
Poor Lady DeWinter (ha!).
Quoted: Undermajordomo Minor
The position (Mr Olderglough assigned it the name of undermajordomo, which Lucy and Father Raymond decided was not a word at all) was lowly and the pay mirrored this but Lucy, having nothing better to do, and nowhere in the world to be … embraced his fate and wrote back to Mr Olderglough, formally accepting the offer, a decision which led to many things, including but not limited to true love, bitterest heartbreak, bright-white terror of the spirit, and an acute homicidal impulse.
How could I possibly put this book down after a set up like that?!
Quoted: The Green Hills of Africa
Goddam it. I am funny. But the hell with him.
(Honestly, this thought goes through my mind at least three times a day.)
Quoted: Soulless
You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.
All the Books
Now, I know what you’re thinking.
“Tori, you haven’t reviewed a book in over a month. Are you all right? Has someone robbed you of your TBR pillars? Have you sustained a terrible blow to the head, making you illiterate and only able to review movies by dictating them to friends and coworkers? Have you given up on your 2016 book challenge already?”
To these questions and more, dear readers, I say “No. But thank you for your concern.”
I’ve been reading, all right. I’ve just been reading ALL THE BOOKS at once. See:
These are my current reads:
- Soulless by Gail Carriger
- Nomfiction edited by Little Fiction | Big Truths
- Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
- Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- Emily Carr As I Knew Her by Carol Pearson
- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
At least four of them will be included in my book challenge, one is for work, and the other is just too good not to read right now. Any guesses as to which is which? Here’s my challenge for reference.
