Date a girl who reads

"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads."


-Rosemarie Urquico

Guess What?

I'm starting to write a story.  I haven't attempted like this since sophomore year of high school.  What can I say? The creative juices have just been flowing lately.

I'll decide to share it if I think it's any good.

Cheers!

Backlash

Stability.  The amenity of my life.
Events happened that were never intended;
I'm sure.
But how is it for you now?
The causality, reality, and centrality
Of what you've done is hitting hard.
Like being suffocated,
I realize it's too late,
Even though I struggle
Against the inevitable.
I panic and attempt to gasp
While screaming in my head.
My memories flash over all of the finite bad
Instead of the infinite good.
This was never supposed to happen;
I'm sure.

A Good Night's Sleep

A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside.


- Lemony Snicket

Before I Fall

I went on a really intense roller-coaster ride with this book.  At first I hated it; I despised it.  I wanted to slap a few people upside the head and call them mean and vulgar names. (Whoa, I know.  Aleesha, let's not get carried away here.)  But the transformation Samantha goes through is just... Wow.  I highly recommend this book, but just a warning, you need a lot of patience to get through the first half, but I think it's completely worth it.

Top 5 Things on My Bucket List

1. Go to Italy.
2. Start my own publishing company.
3. Write a book.
4. Serve a mission (young or old).
5. Quit Robert's.

Writing Inspiration from Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.

There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.

While I was asleep

I had a dream.
You were in it.
We were side by side
Fighting Zombies.

It was true love.

Reading Books

On the top of my birthday list

Aleesha

A poem I wrote in high school to describe myself.

Escape the real world
Faith, Love
Secrets
Life, Beauty
Optimistic
Captivating
Passionate
Not immune

It's Strange

The Universe

by Tyler Knott Gregson

What if all
the freckles
and beauty marks
that live on your body
were actually
stars
and the scars
were the muddy
and milky
imprints of galaxies
that our eyes
just can’t quite
focus on?
What if the
universe
was your skin
and your flesh
and the tiny
bits of color
spilled out
over the curves
of your body?

I hope this is never the case for me.

Stop

Stop.
Being so afraid.
Afraid of
What others think,
What might happen.
Stop being afraid
of yourself.
Stop.
And start living.