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    • may I quote you on that?

      Posted at 10:51 pm by jasminedesirees, on November 11, 2013

      A few things that have been stuck in my head lately:

      “Film noir gave us a term for the low-maintenance cheap-date type of woman, as personified by Ingrid Bergman and the other cool blondes. They were, in the gruff parlance, Class Acts. A Class Act does not bombard you with whimpering phone calls to the effect of why are you out with your mates watching the footie when you could be choosing sisal floor mats with me?

      A Class Act does not take a split badly, or if she does, does so without so much as a peep. A Class Act is the silhouette disappearing into the night that you will no doubt remember-but will never talk to again. A Class Act will spend a lot of time alone, drinking spirits. A Class Act will never emerge from a local church in a shower of petals. A Class Act will never be a mummy, yummy or otherwise.

      A Class Act will never have a husband who visit prostitutes. Forget I mentioned it.”- Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Love that book.

      “Summer left and no one said a word.”- Matt Nathanson

      “You are arguing that the fragile and rare thing is beautiful just because it’s fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.”- The Fault in Our Stars

      “Fuck that, I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong … I will never apologize. I stand here and I’m amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with … I am not my weight. I am myself.”- Amy Schumer

      “There is something absolutely divine — I mean, literally, the breath of God — in the ability to put someone else in your heart, to think of them first. But from the time of the greatest pornographer who ever lived, Shakespeare, we’ve demanded that love be something more. No, fuck Shakespeare — since the Song of Songs! And what happens is, the utter grandeur and magnificence of what love actually is gets overshadowed by this disappointment that it’s not the way we fantasized it should be.”- Jim, 55

      Posted in love, loveliness, quotes | 0 Comments | Tagged love, loveliness, matt nathanson, quotes, Shakespeare, 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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