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  • Tag: john green

    • may I quote you on that?

      Posted at 10:07 am by jasminedesirees, on April 9, 2015

      Have been absent this week because my family is in town and we’re playing tourist around Scottsdale and Phoenix. Most exciting find so far has been the Tim Horton’s in the Arizona Coyotes stadium. No, that was not sarcasm. My ice cap was magical.

      https://instagram.com/p/1E8vTMs_4Y/

       

      A few words I’ve been liking lately:

      “It is so hard to leave- until you leave. Then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world”.- John Green, Paper Towns

      “I’ve got better things to do than survive” – random drunk girl at a bar in Airlie Beach

      “We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.” -Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

      “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”- Jonathan Saran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

       

      Posted in inspiration, loveliness, quotes | 0 Comments | Tagged Arizona Coyotes, inspiration, john green, jonathan saran foer, loveliness, quotes, Scottsdale, Tim Horton, tom stoppard
    • may I quote you on that?

      Posted at 4:13 pm by jasminedesirees, on May 16, 2014

      “I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”- The Fault in Our Stars

      “Non, je ne regrette rien”- Edith Piaf (No, I regret nothing)

      “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. “-Unknown

      “… You sit by and watch your constitution being torn away from you, willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions suffering and dying all around you. Perhaps I should let you in on a secret… No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self centered, civically ignorant sheep.”– John Titor (time traveler from the 2030’s)

      Posted in loveliness, quotes | 0 Comments | Tagged Edith Piaf, je ne regrette rien, john green, John Titor, loveliness, quotes, The Fault in Our Stars, writing
    • the fault in our stars

      Posted at 12:42 am by jasminedesirees, on August 13, 2013

      I’m reading The Fault in our Stars by John Green, and I’m pretty much obsessed with it. I’ve basically given up eating, bathing and talking to my husband because I can’t put it down.

      I’ve always loved to read, but a lot of the time, books are somewhat predictable. You can tell right away what’s going to happen, or else it starts out really well and you start to get excited, and then the ending feels rushed and contrived, and it’s really disappointing.

      I should probably finish reading it, I suppose, before I write something about it, but writing a book is hard. Like really hard. It’s easy to get distracted, or to get pulled away from your original idea, and before you know it you don’t have any idea who your characters are, or why they are doing what they are doing.

      A lot of the time I will read a book and think “That’s not how I would have done it” or “I could definitely write a better novel than this.” It’s easy to criticize when it’s not your work.

      But sometimes I read a book like this one, and instead of being filled with questions or criticism, I am just utterly content because somewhere out there is someone writing the story exactly the way you would do it, and it gives you hope that it is actually possible to do, and to do well.

      It seems like all of the good stories have already been told, every movie you see is a sequel or a remake, every book you read follows the same plot lines and has the same type of character. But this one is special. I almost don’t want to finish it because either it will not be as good as I thought it was and that will be sad, or it will be, and then it will be over and that will be even sadder.

      Posted in books | 0 Comments | Tagged books, john green, novel, reading, Shakespeare, the fault in ours stars
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