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2/1/16

Another (mini) existential crisis

Text reads: At the edge of the pond / someone who looks like me / is holding hands / with someone who looks like you. / I begin to wonder who I am / because I don't look like me. - Zachary Schomburg
The poem is a little part of the bigger poem titled "The Pond" by Zachary Schomburg.

And now the weather:
Just Give Me A Reason by P!nk ft. Nate Ruess (Jun Sung Ahn Violin Cover ft. Sarah Park)

~ Stacy N.

I'm such a book nerd

My favorite quote from literature?

From John Green's novel Looking For Alaska
Text reads: Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. 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.

For some reason, this quote just makes me smile. Like ridiculously out of the world smile. And if I had to tattoo one line and one line only on my body, it would be this one. All because it makes me happy.

~ Stacy N.

I think I stopped counting my quotes a while ago

My blog is a collection of answers people don’t want to hear to questions they didn’t ask.

~ Sebastyne Young

A Pitch Perfect weekend.

Even though some of you are pretty thin, you all have fat hearts, and that's what matters.

(Fat Amy)

You're one of the a cappella girls. I'm one of those a cappella boys, and we're gonna have aca-children. It's inevitable.

(Jesse)

Well... sometimes I have the feeling I can do crystal meth, but then I think, mmm... better not.

(Fat Amy)

Aubrey: What are you doing?

Fat Amy: Horizontal running.

Told you. Endings are the best part.

(Jesse)

Banned Book Week

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

I've been learning a lot about banned books this week, and found a number of reasons why books are banned. In my opinion, the reason why most books banned is because of vulgar language. It doesn't matter if the books are really amazing that it deserves the highest medal award. If there are a ton of swear words than certain people freak out and demand it to be banned. Another reason, I found why books are banned is because of the topic it talks about, such as homosexuality, magic, racism, kids killing kids, teen pregnancy, kids trying to learn how to be accepted but doesn't attend school that much, etc.

And it makes me angry that all of these books are banned. No, homosexuality isn't a disease and people won't become gay if they read Heather Has Two Mommies or any other book that talk about homosexuality. Kids won't have low morals if they read The Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or anything else. And no kids won't become violent if they read The Hunger Games trilogy.

It also makes me angry when some people ban books even though they haven’t read it at all. What’s the point of banning something if you don’t even know what the book is really about? Have they even tried to find what the theme (moral lesson) of the book really is? Have they thought really hard what it meant to other people or did they just ask themselves, this sucks because it has etc, let’ s not read it anymore and let’s have other people not read it or else they’re not a good person or whatever.

That is by law, a violation of free speech. If something is banned at the library, than that’s taking one less idea that is replaced by yay we banned this book now let’s burn them or something like that. That’s one less story for a person to get into, to escape his/her own life at the moment. It’s one less dream, one more sadness for the author, but it’s a lot more anger for the people who enjoyed that story.

We have the right to read whatever we want, and it’s our choice to endure the consequences that come out of it. If someone doesn’t like it than that’s fine, but it’s stupid of him/her to take that book away from a reader that enjoyed that book, or a reader that wants to read that book.

It’s like a person who hates the stars and tells the other people to not go to the stars, if that makes sense.

So I dare you this week and any other week to read a banned book. Whether it’s a book that has been banned from this year or any other year, read it. And if you don’t like it then that is fine, but don’t let it get taken away from the library because that is one less great literature out of the world. A work of literature that can possibly help us in the future if things go wrong. Literature that can make people small with one small character, a funny sentence/paragraph, or something else. Literature that can inspire.

Lists:

2011/2012 list of Banned Books

Banned classics

Books that were banned in 2005

Books banned by government (includes governments outside of the United States)

A very large amount of Banned Books on Goodreads

And more if you google: banned books list, or something of that sort.

Now a video from authors who stand for free speech.

Four weeks of inspiration (part 1)

Week one:
Be yourself because you want people to like you for you. You don't want people liking you because you're supposedly "that" when you're really not.

source

Week two:

Believe in the practical things in life, the imaginary unrealistic explanations, or believe in a combination of both.

source

Wordless

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Les citations ~ quotes

For the moment I'm going to be basking in the (five) awards that I received tonight, at my school's award ceremony. Meaning, I won’t be writing a proper post today. However I will provide you quotes of anything that sounds inspirational. Also have an amazing night! ^.^

"Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop."

Barack Obama

"And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples."

Barack Obama

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

Dr. Seuss

"You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”

Dr. Seuss

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

Dr. Seuss

“If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!

An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.”

Dr. Seuss

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”

Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”

Steve Jobs

“You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”

Steve Jobs

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Joseph Conrad

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Brigham Young

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

Elizabeth Peters

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”

Jane Austen

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

Edgar Allan Poe

If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.”

Chad Sugg

Random post

You can be smart all your life and takes one minute to do something stupid.

- Translator from one of my parent's Vietnamese entertainment video.

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Just one for day or more specifically 6 1/2 more hrs.

^.^ I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE HUNGER GAMES!!! I still haven't bought my ticket yet. :(
So I'm planning on withdrawing some money from my bank account tomorrow and hopefully see it on Saturday or Friday depending on the circumstances. Also have you heard? There's a new Taylor Swift song that's also going on the Hunger Games soundtrack, and and it really does fit in with the whole Hunger Games theme. How one moment it's childhood and you don't have to face the cruelty of the world yet. Then the next [you turn twelve] you face the cruelty of the world, and also hope to not have your name called. Because obviously, who wants to fight to the death. As Peeta says in the Hunger Games, it takes away everything about you once you do murder someone.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.
- Peeta, pg 23, Mockingjay

So without further ado, the song Eyes Open by Taylor Swift.

The tricky thing
Is yesterday we were just children
Playing soldiers
Just pretending
Dreaming dreams with happy endings
In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords
But now we've stepped into a cruel world
Where everybody stands and keeps score

~.~.~.~.~

So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard
Every lesson forms a new scar
They never thought you'd make it this far
But turn around, oh they've surrounded you
It's a showdown, and nobody comes to save you now

lyrics found at azlyrics here.