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Heartless by Marissa Meyer

☆☆☆☆☆

An absolute must read.

"Long before she was the terror of wonderland, the infamous Queen of Hearts, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love."

This novel brings readers excitement and illicit romance between two star crossed lovers.

The protagonist, Katherine, is the daughter of a noble and only wants to open a bakery to share her love of pastries with the folks of wonderland. But fate has other plans when she is suddenly told of the foolish King's desire to marry her.

I found this novel to be painfully beautiful because as the reader we already know that she is going to marry the king. We know how the story ends. We know and yet we hope stubbornly that she will succeed in her quest to follow her dreams by opening a bakery and be with the one she loves. And when she ultimately fails we can't be surprised; we knew this was coming.

I give this book 5 stars because I will be crying over this book 'till the end of time.

“ I thought love was war. I didn't know it was supposed ... I didn't know was supposed to be peace. ”

“ The first man in my life who really saw me, who ever really understood me, who had so much in common with me... and he still didn't love me. ”

— Daisy Jones & The Six.

Ancient forest in Seattle, Washington 📍 1st time on the new trail 👣

got my tangible copies!!!!🧡💙

The ebooks weren’t enough ‘coz I want to highlight and annotate tons of freakin’ good lines.

According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai — a reason for living.

Have you found your ikigai yet?

“Every word we spoke here—each one of them was another pomegranate seed.”

~~ Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

The Alchemist

Quotes that I really liked and felt the need to underline:

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

"It's not what enters men's mouth that's evil, it's what comes out of their mouth that is."

"Wherever your heart is, that's where you will find your treasure."

"I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself."

"All people who are happy have God within them, and that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years tı create it."

"Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested."

"Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?" The boy asked the alchemist.

"Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer."

I study the scene in front of the bus the way I studied my letters in school. Gradually I begin to make out a kind of order in all the disorderness, a pattern to it all. It is like a river, where the currents of buses and trucks and people and animals flow into and around each other. If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words

Lakshmi in Patricia McCormick's book "Sold"

Quotes from Long way down by Jason Reynolds

Mr Van Houten

Ben iyi bir insanım ama berbat bir yazarım. Sen berbat bir insansın ama iyi yazarsın. Bence iyi bir takım oluruz. Lütfen bunu düzeltin, Hazel için anma konuşması. Benden yazmamı istedi ve bende çabalıyorum. Ama biraz sihir iyi olurdu. Mesele şu ki hepimiz hatırlanmak isteriz. Ama Hazel farklı. Hazel gerçeğin farkında. O, bir milyon hayran istemedi. O sadece bir tane istedi ve isteğine kavuştu da. Belki genişce sevilmedi ama derinden sevildi. Çoğumuzdan daha fazlasını yaşamak değil midir bu zaten? Hazel hastalandığında öldüğümün farkındaydım ama söylemek istemedim. Yoğun bakımdayken 10 dakikalığına içeri sızdım ve onunla oturdum, ta ki yakalanana dek. Gözleri kapalıydı. Rengi solmuştu. Ama elleri hala onun elleriydi. Hala sıcaktı ve tırnaklarında koyu lacivert bir oje vardı. Onları öylece tutdum ve ne kadar değersiz bir dünya ola bileceğini anladım. O kadar güzel ki. Ona bakmakdan sıkılmazsınız. "Benden zeki mi?" diye paranoya yapamazsınız çünkü zeki. Kalp kırmadan komik ola biliyor. Onu seviyorum. Öyle bir seviyorum ki. Onu sevdiğim için o kadar şanslıyım ki Van Houten. İncinip incinmeyeceğine dair tercih yapma şansın yok ama seni kimin incitebileceğini seçebilirsin. Ben seçimlerimden memnunum. Umarım o da memnundur . . .

~ Okay Hazel Grace ?

      ~ Okay.

To Kill A Mocking Bird By Harper Lee

"Shoot all the blue jays you want,if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird"

This book throws light on various topics like prejudice, racism, civil rights, gender roles, perception, integrity without discussing them explicitly yet showing us a way to comprehend all of the topics and their effects on society.

The events take place in Maycomb, Alabama around the 1930s. It is as seen through the eyes of Scott Finch, a young bright girl of 6, inquisitive and brave to say the least. The book has the power to connect with the reader at a deeper level and help change the perspective on how one sees the world and the people in it.