Och störst av allt är kärleken...

Hej allesammans! Det är den här tiden på året igen, ni vet, när en ny Fifthy Shades - film kommer på bio och alla matbutiker fylls till brädden av hjärtformat godis. Och självklart, för att fira denna kärlekens dag går också veckans TTT tema i alla hjärtans dag andra, och är en kärleks-freebie. Så, för att vara lite lagom cheesy (och med det menar jag självklart EXTREMT cheesy) på, vad som av endel kan anses som årets mest överskattade dag, tänkte jag dela med mig av några av mina favorit citat om kärlek. Och ja, det är mycket John Green och Rupi Kaur här, för de är praktiskt taget gudar när det kommer till att sätta ord på känslor, lev med det.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Remember, we all stumble; every one of us. That is why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”

Emily Kimbrough

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”

Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I know I 

should crumble

for better reasons 

but have you seen 

that boy
he brings 

the sun to 
its knees 

every night.”

Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous”

Pablo Neruda

”how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these things after you left.”

Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

”I want to be with you, 

it is as simple, 

and as complicated as that.”

Charles Bukowski 

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

John Green

“most importantly love
like it's the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this
means nothing
this page
where you're sitting
your degree
your job
the money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them”
Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

Om ni skulle vilja sprida kärleken vidare får ni jättegärna lämna en kommentar med ert favoritcitat om kärlek här nedan! Och ha en bra alla hjärtans dag hörni!

Kram på er!

11 anledningar att älska Neil Gaiman

Ni som har följt den här bloggen ett tag vet kanske att jag förra sommaren läste Oceanen vid vägens slut av Neil Gaiman och inte alls tyckte om den. Men när jag skulle söka upp ett citat till min recension av boken så hamnade jag på Goodreads sida av alla Neil Gaimans citat och låt mig bara säga att jag ganska snabbt blev väldigt imponerad. Så ja, jag gillade inte den enda bok jag någonsin läst av karln, däremot kan jag citera ett flertal av hans citat utantill. Så går det ibland. Jag citerade till och med honom på nyår i DET HÄR inlägget. För, jag menar, vissa saker han säger (skriver) är bara så bra!

Därför tänkte jag alltså idag dela med mig av endel av alla citat av Neil Gaiman som jag tycker lite extra om, så här kommer de - 11 anledningar (aka citat) att älska Neil Gaiman:

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“Fairy tales are more than true: Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

- Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Sometime you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things”

- Neil Gaiman

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." 

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

"It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean." 

- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

"Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”

- Neil Gaiman,  The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not." 

- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..." 

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

"Even nothing cannot last forever." 

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous." 

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Vilket citat är eran favorit och vad tycker ni om Neil Gaiman?
Kram
Kimberly

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Top Ten Romantic Book Quotes

Tisdag idag vilket innebär Top Ten Tuesday! Veckans tema är Alla hjärtans dag inspirerat:

Valentine's Day is next week...let's do a Valentine's Day themed freebie! Top Ten Books That Would Make Great Valentine's Day Reads (or anti-Valentine's day reads), Top Ten OTPs, Top 10 fictional crushes, top ten great love declarations in fiction, swoony quotes from books etc. Get creative!

Så, jag har valt att lista tio romantiska/gulliga citat! För att, ja, ni vet ju att jag älskar citat, och nu när TTT den här veckan ändå handlar om ämnet så skadar det väll inte att gräva ner sig lite i det och sprida lite kärlek (och sen är jag väll något av en såndär hopplös romantiker också, men så får det väll vara). Här kommer citaten (utan inbördes ordning som vanligt):

”I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.” 

The Fault in Our Stars av John Green

"His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. 

Because this.

This is everything."

Sätt mig i brand av Tahereh Mafi

“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

Stad av Glas av Cassandra Clare

”He is beauty, inside and out. 

He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. 

He is my light.”

Prodigy av Marie Lu

“You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.” 

Som stjärnor i natten av Jennifer Niven

“I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.” 

Allegiant av Veronica Roth

"It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world."

Sätt mig i brand av Tahereh Mafi

"Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." 

Eleanor & Park av Rainbow Rowell

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

The One av Kiera Cass

“True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

John Green

Fler romantiska citat kan ni hitta HÄR hos Buzzfeed!

Kram
Kimberly

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Här kommer ett såntdär citat igen

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.” 

Ally Condie, Matched

Gott nytt år!!

” I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.  

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.  

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.  

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.  

Make your mistakes, next year and forever. ” 

- Neil Gaiman. 

Dagens Citat

 "The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody." 

- Som stjärnor i natten, Jennifer Niven 

Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So

Så dags för Top Ten Tuesday (eller i det här fallet kanske Top Ten Wednesday) och den här veckan är temat att lista ens top tio favoritcitat från böcker utlästa det här året. Så här nedan har ni några av mina favoriter :)

Som några av er kanske vet älskar jag citat. Jag älskar hur man ibland bara kan läsa en rad eller ett stycke i en bok och bara känna wow. När något känns sådär kittlande rätt, eller är sådär fantastiskt vackert att man inte riktigt kan släppa det. Sen hittar jag inte alltid favoritcitat när jag läser en bok - ibland är jag alldeles för inne i den för att lägga märket till sådant - utan ofta senare på internet eller Goodreads (jag använder Goodreads en hel del för att leta reda på fina citat och spara dem jag gillar). Hur som helst passade veckans tema mig toppen. Även om jag var lite stressad igår så det blev en dag sent. 

"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." 

- Jendy Nelson, Jag ger dig solen

"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail." 

- John Green, Efter Alaska

"I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else." 

- Stephanie Perkins, Lola och pojken i huset bredvid

"I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free." 

- Laini Taylor, Blod och stjärnstoft

"The town was paper, but the memories were not." 

- John Green, Pappersstäder

"It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world."

- Tahereh Mafi, Sätt mig i brand

"Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody." 

- Neil Gaiman, Oceanen vid vägens slut

"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." 

- John Green, Efter Alaska

"But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope." 

- Brandon Sanderson, Sista Riket

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”

- E. Lockhard, We Were Liars

"I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light." 

- Tahereh Mafi, Sätt mig i brand

Vilka av de här citaten är era favoriter? Vilket är det bästa citatet ni läst i år? Kommentera!

Kram

Kimberly

Ett litet citat...

"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite." 

- Stephen Cbhosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

Top Ten Tuesday v.35

Idag är det inte tisdag...faktum med att det är söndag vilket är ganska långt ifrån tisdag, men så mycket har kommit emellan den här veckans Top Ten Tuesday. I tisdags och onsdags var jag på klassresa och hade så fullt upp med att packa och förbereda mig så att jag inte hann med att fixa ett tidsinställt inlägg, och sedan blev jag sjuk och ja... Här sitter jag nu och skriver Top Ten Tuesday på en söndag. Men jag ville verkligen göra veckans tema, så vad gör man inte. Bättre sent än aldrig.

Top Ten Tuesday anordnas varje vecka av the Broke and the Bookish. Veckans tema är: Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught X 101 (examples: YA fantasy 101, feminist literature 101, magic in YA 101, classic YA lit 101, world-building 101).

Så här kommer mitt tema - även om det är väldigt basic så kändes det ändå rätt, och var jättesvårt att välja böckerna, så de kommer inte heller i någon ordning (hehe la till och med till några extra på slutet #leverfarligt):

Top Ten Books That Would Be on My Syllabus If I Thought YA (Young Adult) Literature:

(Och åh juste, la till ett citat från varje bok istället för att motivera mina val, tänkte att det kunde bli lite intressant, enjoy :)

Jag, En av David Levithan

"If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough." 

Rör mig inte! av Tahereh Mafi;

"The moon is a loyal companion.

It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections." 

We Were Liars (Kanske är det allt du behöver veta) av E. Lockhart

"Do not accept an evil you can change." 

Förr eller senare exploderar jag (the fault in our stars) av John Green

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you."

Fangirl av Rainbow Rowell

"I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off." 

Jag ger dig solen av Jandy Nelson

"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." 

Hungerspelen av Suzanne Collins

"Destroying things is much easier than making them." 

Harry Potter av J.K Rowling
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" 

Fyra dagar, fyra nätter av Morgan Matson
"Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better."

Den femte vågen av Rick Yancey:

"How do you rid the Earth of humans? 

Rid the humans of their humanity." 

Fler jag skulle vilja ha med:

 

Delirium av Lauren Oliver
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up." 

Efter Alaska av John Green
"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken." 

Tankeläsaren av Kristin Cashore
"When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?" 

Wallflower av Stephen Chbosky
"So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them." 

Vilka böcker skulle ni själva välja om ni lärde ut YA?
Kram
Kimberly

Veckans Citat:

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.” 

- Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me (Sätt mig i brand!) 

Dagens Citat

"At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too." 

- John Green, Paper Towns 

Dagens Citat

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - Nail Gaiman