Sometimes I
read on my Kindle and sometimes (when I don't forget I’m actually on a device
that can do this) I highlight some words that make a lot of sense to me. Today
I thought I would share this... just because.
The
Geography Of You And Me
"The map was as good
as a door swinging shut. And the geography of the thing—the geography of
them—was completely and hopelessly wrong".
"That was the thing
about books, she was realizing; they could take you somewhere else entirely, it
was true. But it wasn’t the same thing as actually going there yourself".
If
I Stay
"I don’t know if once
you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes
a certain logical sense that you wouldn’t. That being dead will feel like
before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness".
Sisterhood
Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)
"She knew that when
she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and
adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the
doing that was painful".
"Because she was raw
and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself".
Gone
Girl
"It’s a very difficult
era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a
collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of
characters".
Forgive
Me, Leonard Peacock
"How to Live Blindly
in a Blind World 101".
"Did that ever happen
to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get
to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I’m talking about?”.
"Did you ever think
about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember at all? The ones
that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds,
maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory.
Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all the wrong
nights?".
Going
Bovine
"Zero, my favorite
number. As in zero expectations, zero disappointments".
Severed
Heads, Broken Hearts
"Oscar Wilde once said
that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist,
and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spent a long
time existing, and now, I intend to live".
Fangirl
"I’m scared of
everything. And I’m crazy. Like maybe you think I’m a little crazy, but I only
ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of
slightly crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster".
"God, she wanted to
tackle him and roll around in him like a cat in a field of daisies".
"Sometimes writing is
running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your
legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity".
Invisibility
"The lies we tell
ourselves are the worst ones".
Every
Day
"When no one else is
around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer".
Looking
for Alaska
“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".
The
Fault in Our Stars
"(Off topic, but: What
a slut time is. She screws everybody.)".
"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory".
"We drank from paper Winnie-the-Pooh cups".
Beautiful
Redemption (Book 4) (Beautiful Creatures)
"There are lots of
things we choose not to see. Doesn’t mean they aren’t there, even if we wish
they weren’t".
Ender's
Game (The Ender Quintet Book 1)
"Perhaps it’s
impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be".
If only I could remember to highlight on my paperbacks.
