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one sees clearly only with the heart

what is essential is invisible to the eye

Jac elyn. The slightly deranged teenager getting ready for the zombie apocalypse, also addicted to sugary/sweet stuff and junk food. MLIA.
Longer profile & list of links.

Stereo Hearts / To write love on her arms. / Urban fields, suburban life. / Beginning of the end. / In the deeeeep. / IN YER FREAKING FACE HOHOHO / What does it mean? / Afraid / Heaven in sight. / Not even white lies. /

If people were rain.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Ok just thought I'll recommend a book to folks. Will suit most teens I guess.

It's popular and award winning. Pretty lots of good quotes and stuff.

Looking For Alaska.

-John Green

"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."

"Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life."

Taken from the blurb:

"Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart."

More than all these. Pure brilliance. No its not much romance. If it was I wouldnt touch it.

But I'll say The Alchemist was more life-changing. Mitch Albom too.

Most life-changing books/authors

Mitch Albom

The Alchemist

The Little Prince

The Last Lecture

For more 'worldly' knowledge, I'll say Malcolm Gladwell, esp What The Dog Saw.

The lives I'll never live.

one sees clearly only with the heart what is essential is invisible to the eye
Jac elyn. The slightly deranged teenager getting ready for the zombie apocalypse, also addicted to sugary/sweet stuff and junk food. MLIA. Longer profile & list of links.
Stereo Hearts / To write love on her arms. / Urban fields, suburban life. / Beginning of the end. / In the deeeeep. / IN YER FREAKING FACE HOHOHO / What does it mean? / Afraid / Heaven in sight. / Not even white lies. /
If people were rain. Friday, July 8, 2011 Ok just thought I'll recommend a book to folks. Will suit most teens I guess. It's popular and award winning. Pretty lots of good quotes and stuff. Looking For Alaska. -John Green "I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane." "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." "I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God." "Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life." Taken from the blurb: "Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart." More than all these. Pure brilliance. No its not much romance. If it was I wouldnt touch it. But I'll say The Alchemist was more life-changing. Mitch Albom too. Most life-changing books/authors Mitch Albom The Alchemist The Little Prince The Last Lecture For more 'worldly' knowledge, I'll say Malcolm Gladwell, esp What The Dog Saw. The lives I'll never live.