I feel like quoting.

These are some of my favorite quotes from The Guernesey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.”

“We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.”

“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

It’s such a good book. I adore Dawsey.

20 things about me and some Ramblings

I just feel like talking about myself. I know, I know…that’s not unorthodox. I guess I didn’t need to make a statement about it.

1. I love making lists. I have them all over my room. I have a list of the movies I’ve seen and with whom for the past 5 years. I have lists of names I like and their meanings. I have the normal lists of “Stuff I need to Get” with shampoo and floss on it. But I also have funny lists, like my list with the names of all the boys I’ve kissed (or a description of the boy…HA!) I have pages and pages of this stuff. No idea why, but regardless my list-loving explains the rest of what I’m writing today.
2. I make jewelry. I rarely wear the jewelry I’ve made, but I make it still. I have a freaking cornucopia of beads and the necessary equipment. Usually I give the stuff I make to my mom.
3. I think Asian babies are the cutest babies. I love them!
4. I sing often. I turn the stereo in my car off so I can sing without impediments. I’m constantly worried that someone will leave a recording device in my car. Blackmail for life, I tell you…
5. I’ve gotten to the point in my life where I like fictional people more than real people. It’s sad, yet more satisfying, I swear.
6. I think religion is beautiful myth. Nothing more. It’s inflammatory, but whatever. If life ever puts a burning bush in my path, then I’ll probably just put the fire out…oops. Typically I don’t say things like that because most people think it’s so fundamentally wrong to be irreligious.
7. I am constantly writing stories in my head. I often include people I know, people I want to know and events that should have gone the way they did in my head.
8. I’m rarely disappointed in other people. It’s a mixture of low expectations and just knowing people.
9. My dreams are madness!!
10. I prefer getting to know people one-on-one rather than big groups.
11. I’m really excellent at making people believe I’m very interested in what they have to say. That sounds bad. I mean that I am very good at making people talk. Endlessly. (Most people; I’ve been foiled very few times).
12. I’m a feminist. And I hate advertisements.
13. I’m pretty sure I make people uncomfortable all the time. Even if I could control it, and thereby stop it, I wouldn’t.
14. I love making arrogant people feel stupid.
15. When I get tongue-tied I make nonsense sounds and then keep going. It’s like a damn alien language.
16. I hate when I go to the public library and see a family checking out nothing but DVDs. I want to yell at them to get books too! They’re all free! It makes me sad for the next generation that these parents aren’t even trying to get them to read…
17. I hate being wrong, but I hate being told I’m wrong when I’m right way more. And I’ll prove that you were wrong days later (way after you’ve stopped caring about it).
18. I love words. I make a list of words with the books I read of words used that I a) don’t know the meaning of, b) like the word and would like to make note to use it in the future or c) want to know synonyms of so I can better understand it for later usage.
19. I hate more people than I care to admit. At the same time though I believe if you get to know every person you hate you’ll find one (or more) things that will make you pity them.
20. I like teeth. And buying new toothbrushes.

The BIG 21 will be posted tomorrow, because it’s more of a confession and I don’t feel like typing anymore.

Music creates moments.

Probably the coolest thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago while I was driving home from school. My professor let the class out early, which was awesome. So I was completely elated because of that and then that Miley Cyrus song “Party in the U.S.A” came on. I’m not ashamed to admit that I love that song and rock out to it. Amanda (my sister) and I do this thing where we leave each other messages singing whatever rockin’ song comes on the radio. Usually it’s “Build Me Up, Buttercup” by The Foundations.  So I give her a call, as usual, and leave her a message (I timed it perfectly too—came in right at the chorus). The song is still going, but I hang up the phone where I see this adorable little girl (maybe 12 years old) in the car in front of me listening to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” She starts waving at me and we hand-dance together for the remainder of the song.  The dance consists of “putting my hands up” and doing that Butterfly move from Napoleon Dynamite. Pretty sweet. Oh serendipity, you rock my world.

The song ends but she keeps turning around and smiling at me. Her sister who is next to her in the back seat turns around too. I’m totally afraid that I’ll crash into them at this point. Wouldn’t that be the worst ending to the story? Finally, we reach a red light and she’s still looking back to see if I’m there. Then she mouths something to me. Reading people’s mouths is not my forte so I’m like, “What?” She says it again and this time I figure it out. She said, “You’re pretty.” I’m flattered. “Thank you, you too,” I reply. The light turns green but I’m still behind her and she keeps smiling and I can’t stop smiling at this point. After about a mile and a half their car’s blinker starts to go…my new friend turns and as they do all three people wave good-bye.

Such a wonderful moment.