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Love

well, i knew i had to post here someday and now the time has come. what i'm gonna post it's not "well-written", for example, i didn't use capital letters and there's a lot of commas. there's an explanation for that. i always write like that, as you can see now. it's a way to organize my thoughts, so it's easier for me. hope you don't mind me writing like that, because you can understand everything i wrote this way. i wrote this today, just a few minutes ago. you will see by the context of my text that all i wrote is true, it's not some made-up story. it's about my life, about something very recent. something that i would like to have back. well, i don't know what else to say, so i'm just gonna copy paste it here. hope you like it.


-> nothing will ever be so clear: i love you. i cannot live without you. it hurts so much to be away from you. it hurts so much when we're not together. i just wanna be with you. i just wanna make you happy. i just wanna make you smile. i just want you to love me. i just want you to be with me. if you're by my side, i don't want nothing else. i'll try to be a better person. i'll try to never let you down. i'll try to never make you unhappy or sad. i'll do it. i know i will. because i love you. i do love you. you're my soulmate. you're the best thing that ever happened to me. and i know we can be happy together. i know. and i swear that's all i want, to make you happy. i wanna see that smile again. i wanna see that look again. i want those kisses. i want those hugs. i want those days, where we used to be together doing nothing, just being together. i want those hands that used to confort me all the time. i want those words, the words you said to me, always in the right time. i want those cold days, when we used to lie down together, warm. i want you to pick me up at the train station. i want you to knock at my door. i even want that bad temper you have. i have it too. see how we match ? i want to say that i love your hair. i want to say that i love your beard and that i don't want you to shave it off. i want to say that your eyes are the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen. i want you to say that your nose is big, so i can answer that yes, it is big, but i love it. i want to say that i'm fat, so you can make that face like: "you're so silly". i want to be with you and your friends, because truth is: i like them all. i want to go out at night with you and tell you not to drink too much, waiting for you to make that lovely face. i want to go out at night with you, so we can sleep together in a tiny couch. even when you're going out without me, i want to say: "be a good boy". i want you to take care of me when i'm sick, and i wanna take care of you too. because you're one of my most important persons. i miss you explaining me all about star wars while we were watching the movies, beause i'm really dumb. i and i miss calling you nerd. i want to go to the japanese with you. to the italian. to the zoo. to the oceanarium. to the beach. on vacation. because we never had the chance to do that. i want to fulfill all those silly plans we made together. and i want to make some more. guess they're not so silly if they're with you. i even miss your friends making fun of me, of us. i miss talking with you without shuting up while you, seriously, are paying all your attention to what i'm saying. i miss being silly with you. our games. our tickling. our afternoon teas. our movies. i even miss your sleepy face. i want to watch you sleep, like i did a lot of times, and to touch and kiss your face while you do that. i want to sleep with you like we did, embraced. i want to say: "come to bed, it's cold" or "cover me, i'm so cold". i even miss the angry face you used to made when you saw the cuts in my hands, did by my cat. so you can see how much i really miss you, i even miss when you used to said: "i hate your cat". and when i asked you: "why?", you always answered: "because he hurts you". don't you miss it ? doesn't it makes you laugh when you remember how he used to piss us off when we were lying on the couch ? how he was jealous of you and when you said: "she's mine, get off". doesn't it brings good memories ? good memories we could repeat, and even make better. better memories. better days. something you don't know, but i miss my mom asking for you, asking when were you going to meet me at my place, how she said that she really liked you. i even miss your mom saying: "you don't need to be shy" and giving me a hug. your dad with that big big smile saying hi to me, and calling me: "little one", like you did all the time. and i even miss my father asking me: "what's his name ?" and my brother saying you had some nice jokes (yeah, he really liked you). my friends saying: "it can really show that you love each other" and "his eyes are sooo beautiful !". yeah, that's right, and they used to be mine. i want them again. there's nothing like your eyes, looking at me so deeply, enough to make me melt away. i miss those times, those moments we spent together. it seems like a lifetime to me. but i know it's not, and that's why i want you back, to make them last for a lifetime this time. no more pain, no more sorrow, just happy moments, just happy faces and a lot of smiles ! and a lot of love too. they say that love is the greatest feeling in the world, that when you love you can overcome pain, sorrow, sadness, well, everything that's bad. i love you, and i want to take your pain away. i want to bring that same old smile to your face. i don't know what else to say. there's so much i could say, so much i would never finish. i just want to say i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. and i want you back. so give just one chance to our love, one opportunity. i know we can make it happen. i know we can make it better this time. i know we're meant to be happy together.

Filipa Marques

Apparently I've a problem...

Addicted to books part 2...

I love reading

I love writing.
I love writing ABOUT reading!

Ok...

So, on Addicted to books part 2
we are going to take a tour on

great quotes and images about
our favourite topic...

BOOKS!!!

Welcome to BookLand...

All the "rides" are own by different people on the Internet
So none or very little actually belongs to me

Except my photo...

I'm not gonna say which one it is,

because if you know me you already know and if you don't
well... though luck!´

Popcorn is free

Coca-Cola was free, but then I got thirsty...

and if you are a Prince of Tennis Fan,

(such as myself) I can offer you some Grape Ponta...

OK... Let's Begin...

SPEAK OUT turns to READ OUT

the Truth is in here...




Never judge a book by it's movie

***

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. Paxton Hood

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Books are uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me

From mine own library

with volumes that

I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616),

The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Unknown


A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Cicero

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~ G. K. Chesterton

When a new book is published, read an old one. Unknown

***

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. Unknown

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

The covers of this book are too far apart. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~ Voltaire

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ~ Groucho Marx

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Library in nature...

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps.My Favorite Novel! "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Not my favorite book tough... My Favorite book is "A Thousand and one Nights".

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

***
One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

***

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

***

God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages.

***

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. (talking about Henry James)
***
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
***
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
***
I was reading a book...'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
***
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

That's All...

Review and Write on!

Hi! My Name is Sara and I'm a book-addict...

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I'm addicted

What about you?

...
So, what's your addiction?

When I found myself confronted with this question in English class, I faltered...
Not because I don't know what I'm addicted to, or because I have no addictions, but because I'm overly dependent on too many things and since I've too many addictions, I've managed to reduced them all to this quote:

I'm addicted to books.

I love everything about books.

Big and small books!Old books, new books! dictionaries and encyclopedias!

Love the stories, the humour, the suspense, the adventure, the romance (the dashing knight always saving his damsel in distress in some new, equally fascinating way) the magic, the fun, the entertainment pocket-size! you can playback anytime, you can do-overs and stop at anytime you're bored or just don't feel like reading anymore... and it counts as studying!


I adore not just the stories, but also the printing of the letters on the paper pages, the feeling of the pages as they slip by my fingers and the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.

The black and white images adorning the first letter on the beginning of each chapter, the colours and images on the covers (I especially like hardcover books, and buy them whenever I can get them) damn! I even like the way books smell! old and new, and like paper and ink.

I love the act of buying books.

I like to always be informed on what books are out or to come out, and I stop by the book store near my house, at least once every two days. Every time I see a new book store I always enter and check the shelves, for both familiar and unfamiliar titles. The lady in the book store near my house even knows my name, and what kind of books I like to buy. She always greets me by my name and says, if there is anything new that, she thinks I might like to read.

But I'm learning not to buy any book I want, just because I want it.

I must learn to do this fast, because I'm running out of bookshelf space very quickly, and I've began to pile my books in towers and castles on the floor...

Right now I'm building a bridge with my Terry Pratchett's collection.

My Harry Potters' are on the base of my central tower and my Anne Rice and Sherrilyn Kenyons' are fighting for a spot in the front wall. What can I do, if I look at the shelves and the books just stare at me?

So yummy and shinny and all lined up...

I love book stores!

Not so found of libraries though, the book are all looked away under key and look, (and in my library, even chains) it looks like they are on prison and it upsets me. It just seems kind of cruel...

Anyway, the books are always there... just for you.


They are never bored of you, never tired from playing, never occupied with something else.

They always have time for you... they always listen and they never complain.

They never judge. They always care.

You can call them at any time, all the time or don't call on them, at all...

They don't get upset, because you don't spend enough time with them or because you trade them for some other book.

Books are the best of friends and the wisest of teachers.
Because they teach you the greatest of life's lessons... they teach you to be yourself.
Let me explain...

A lot of people these days don't like to read, I know.
They think that they can learn everything from the TV but they are wrong.
Do the TV explain and describe all the emotions, that you can feel when you read?
No,it's just exposing them.
Does the TV give you the freedom of imagination?
No,they make you fit into their imagination.
Yes, it's easier to just turn the TV on with the click of one button, but reading...it's much more beautiful...

Tell us what you think: What's better Harry Potter or Twilight?

I've recently been on a site posting this question: what's better Harry Potter or Twilight?

I still don't understand... what’s with comparing Harry Potter to Twilight?!
Are you idiots? Come On!
The only things these two series can be compared on is the size of the fandom and, in that case, Harry Potter wins, because practically EVERYONE everywhere knows at least what Harry Potter is. That is not true for Twilight. Plus, anyone can like Harry Potter (of course not everyone does), but most Twilight fans are either 12-year-olds, high school kids who prefer to read at a junior high school reading level, housewives who seriously need to get a life, and a couple guys (whom I understand the least). Harry Potter has a funny and sometimes witty prose, and amazingly well-thought-out plot, well-developed characters and an author who is a true plot genius, if not more. Twilight is the product of a wet dream of a woman who doesn't know anything about writing. Her plot is practically nonexistant, her characters are one-dimensional, impossible to relate to, and boring.
And, by the way, Edward Cullen is not "perfect." He is abusive, controlling, and Bella's reactions to his abusive set feminism back to the days when women were expected to do everything the man said and needed to get married and have kids and stay at home.
In conclusion: Twilight sucks lots. HP is way better.
Every time you compare the two, a kitten dies. So please stop.

And there are still a couple of things I have to say, especially after reading book two of the series:
1.VAMPIRES DON'T SPARKLE!!!
2. Edward even though he is hot, is a creepy stalker who watches people sleep while he thirsts for their blood.(serial killer, anyone?)
3. Bella should hate Edward for leaving her and not welcome him back with open arms so the hole in her chest can heal.WTF?!
4. Harry Potter > Voldemort
Voldemort > Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory = Edward Cullen
therefore....
Harry Potter > Edward Cullen

My views on it are my own of course. But the book in question...is garbage. I (like most teenagers) read fanfiction, the authors there write far better.
And the characters are more organized and have faults like REAL people.
Bella is what we like to call a Mary-Sue. Sickeningly perfect yet utterly disgusting.
Edward made me laugh hysterically. This book may just have ruined vampire sensuality for years to come. Not only does he sparkle but he stalks her too.
I know from experience, this is anything but romantic.
It’s shameful to compare a great series like Harry Potter to Twilight. Harry Potter is in depth, descriptive, the characters grow and change.
Twilight? An immortal vampire, who is supposed to be extremely attractive, is... a virgin? That is simply ridicules. A teenage boy, with powers and looks, stays a virgin. Like I said before, anything but romantic. That would make me question his sexuality more than anything. I can’t even say that this book is good for girls younger than me( I’m 18). Anyone with a brainstem who has ever been in an actual relationship would do a double-take while reading. Edward is arrogant and mean. How can you sleep at night saying he’s romantic? On top of that, the plot is unoriginal. Harry Potter on the other hand is amazing compared to Twilight. (Note, I am not a Harry Potter fanatic either, but I enjoy the books)
You mock it with ‘Hocus-Pocus’, but Twilights vampires can sparkle all they please?
Its Repugnant…
I believe more in the magic of the Wizarding World rather than a damn virginal, old, sparkling, maniac who stalks a Mary Sue.
That's all.

The Seven Lists:

SEVEN THINGS THAT SCARE ME
1. No computer .[...which is followed by...]
2. No internet .
3. cocaroches
4. Foodless-ness, it's more than basic hunger, indeed...
5. Any small wounds [glass, knifes, papercuts, anything small, especially on one's hand, hurts like hell! Do. Not. Like. Needles]
6. The World's economy crashing *knocks on wood* A crash = no or less money/food budgeting = real issue
7. Desecration of my records and collections [books, manga, paper, docs, etc.]. An attempt to do so will ensure the offender a fate beyond worse than anything the Count of Monte Cristo may think of...or equal to what he may think of with today's modern...toys.

SEVEN THINGS THAT I LIKE THE MOST
1. Watching anime, comedy, movies, etc.
2. Reading
3. Good Music
4. Travelling [which then leads to...]
5. Good authentic food
6. Summer storms [which then makes me want to...]
7. Sleep

SEVEN RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I like to make up new words and expressions.
2. I am usually the mediator when my friends get into arguments.
3. Good music greatly affects my mood.
4. I get weird bursts of energy/happiness/joy.[oh the joy!]
5. I have a very short attention span.
6. I'm a casual hardcore gamer [love blackjack! and in computer games I ADORE The Sims!]
7. I get lots of inspiration, which converts into short-movies in my head, actually is more like mind theatre… but I never write them because:
a. I forget the flow of the plot already;
b. I got distracted by something else. Again;
c. And/or new other plot is currently showing on the mind theatre.
Therefore, I make fanfictions, when I remember to write.
Most of these are unpostable.

SEVEN THINGS I PLAN TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Learn to play any instrument... well.
2. Produce an heir[ess] so that I can impart *ore-sama no bigi*...abstract things that they need to learn unto them before my [possibly un]timely demise rather than others brainwashing them3. Pull a Shakespeare and add enforce donate new words to the world's language.
4. Pull a Berlitz and learn at least 100 languages. Fluently. *sigh* Not impossible but still... I can't even get my spanish classes, right...
5. Get a degree and do some real work, maybe produce some ground breaking and remarkable to society.
6. Meet Prince Charming and…
7. Kick him in the butt them marry the Frog.

SEVEN THINGS I CAN DO
1. Make life hard complicated interesting for some people.
2. Sing, [some times…COME ON! It’s possible right?].
3. Understand insults in several languages even if I don't understand the languages fluently themselves.
4. Understand Irony, Sarcasm and subtle jokes.5. Write [and it’s all a bunch of good things too!]6. Stare at others blankly with them interpreting it as a glare, scorn, sneer, derisive stare, condescending stare, mockingly amused stare, etc. Weirdly enough.
7. Do several gymnastic positions. *I’m quite flexible*

SEVEN THINGS I CAN'T DO
1. Tolerate ignorant, discriminatory wastes of space
2. Concentrate on studying for more than 15 mins. Weirdly enough, I still manage to do rather well in school.
3. Strong smells. Strong scents will immediately equate stench even if you're prancing with the latest, most intoxicating Chanel perfume. I will place a 30 metre ban on you and your stink.
4. Read anything for more than 40 mins on a computer screen, without breaks. Including fics.
5. Outscream my brother. Bloody hell.
6. Tolerate boredom.
7. Hurt people.

SEVEN THINGS THAT ATTRACT Me TO THE OPPOSITE SEX
1. Intelligence
2. Pretty hands, long fingers, preferably artistic hands
3. ...ah...Talents *cough*
4. *Animal magnetism*...Charms
5. Eyes
6. Voice
7. Personality

SEVEN THINGS I SAY THE MOST
1. Indeed
2. Hnn or hmmmm
3. Mada mada dane. [ ok…so I don’t say it, but I could!]
4. I didn’t or I did
5. For god's sake
6. Nop
7. Oki Doki

Once again three am...

It isn’t like I didn’t try to drop this unreasonable addiction a few times in the past, to fight this ridiculous craving.
I did, but it always ends the same way, with me waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, fighting the urge to scream.
My mind is so full and confusing, my hands shake, my body feels hot and cold at the same time, it’s like I have just run a marathon. I can’t seem to fight this mystifying urge to write.
Three in the morning know all of my secrets, and there is no hiding from those moments without something to dull my mind.
That’s why I eat chocolate. Chocolate, the only known cure to sudden attacks of plot bunnies, excited muses and many other fantastical inspirations!

The Boxing Day

The " Boxing Day", when heard about this holiday, the first thing that came to mind was boxing. The boxing Day, is right after Christmas on the 26th of december. Then I thought it was a day, when we would box someone else in revenge for what we didn't get or didn't get all. So I imagine me puching someone because I got clothes instead of videos games. But no, in fact it's a much better thing. It's a is a bank holiday or a public holiday, in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and contries in the Commowealth of Nations. In South Africa this public holiday is now known as the Day of Goodwill. It is based on the tradition of giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society.
Still if it was the way I first thought of it, it would be pretty cool.

V.H. Miranda, stay tunned for more