“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” ― Rick Riordan Eat, shop, dream, repeat! was all we did in New York during the winter. In early February, […]
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
We live, as we dream – alone.
“Do you see the story? Do you see anything?… It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream – making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream sensation… No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence […]
London Lovin’: Notting Hill
Autumn leaves crunching beneath my feet, light rain smattering wet droplets on my leather outer. Can you imagine how happy I was to see the ‘travel bookstore’ with a blue door on Notting Hill? Mostly I was busy snapping pictures, head in the clouds, wishing I could step into a bookstore and meet my personal […]
Halloweens of yesteryears
Let today be the day you stop being haunted by ghosts of yesterday. Happy Halloween.
September Reads
These couple of chick-lit came in the mail from Book Depository! A cosy, much-desired break from heavy literature. Can’t wait to lose some sleep over them. Easy – Tammara Webber Hubble Bubble – Jane Lovering I Heart New York – Lindsey Kelk The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris – Jenny Colgan Unsticky – Sarra Manning […]
prism of infinite spectrum
“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up […]
Glitter Shower
“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.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
If you love a flower…
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ― Osho
eternal graffiti in the heart
“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” – Max Ehrmann Despite ups and downs (literally turbulence, and figuratively) life has been pretty awesome of late. I wouldn’t have traded summer for its worth in gold, and I’ll look positively forward to the rest of it. Itacho Sushi with Nataon Dia, […]
some in satin, some in gloss
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” ― Judy Garland
I’m not a starfish or a pepper tree
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
a rock in a riverbed
“I didn’t remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. ” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
burn and rave at close of day
“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
ways of spreading light
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ― William Arthur Ward
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
mask of the people
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin
a man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
when you kill a man, you steal a life.
“There is only one sin. and that is theft… when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
she’s all the lifeboats you need
Hands up if you’ve got an eternal crush on Jack Dawson. “Well, yes, ma’am, I do… I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or, who […]
the next crazy venture
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
