All of These Lines Across My Face

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction…. It requires us to pace ourselves. It returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let the narrative prevail. We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little, by stepping back from the noise.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever.
Philip Pullman

BOOKS. The purpose of a book is to lose yourself. To immerse yourself in a new world, in another person’s adventures. You can experience places you could never go, take part in historical events taken place hundreds of years before your birth. You learn new ideas, insights, opinions and ways of looking upon the world. You feel inspired, you gain wisdom, you see the beauty the world holds underneath the ugly reality we have all become all too familiar with. And all it takes is turning the page.

You’re beautiful and sad,” I said finally, not looking at him when I did. “Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.” For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, “Thank you.
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvator

POSSIBLE NAMES FOR CATS.

Mr. Darcy
Gandalf
Fitzgerald
Sherlock
Sir Lancelot
Mrs. Norris

Harry Potter

Dumbledoor

Hagrid

Hermione
Anne of Green Gables
Jane Eyre
Madame Bovary
Hamlet

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named or The Dark Lord or You-Know-Who or You-No-Poo
Arturo
Alice
King Arther
Aslan
Bilbo Baggins
Frodo Baggins
James Bond
Blackbeard
Cinderella
Dracula
Atticus Finch
Huckleberry Finn
Frankenstein
Jay Gatsby
Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Merlin
Rumplestilskin
Tom Sawyer
Ebenezer Scrooge
Oliver Twist
Uncle Tom
Zeus

Inspiring Links:

Where The Hell Is Matt?

This Is My Voice

Calm Dot Com

ohhh i feel like dancing rawr

oh yes, dirty words

don't stop, don't stop

MY GIFT IS MY SONG. AND THIS ONE'S FOR YOU. AND YOU CAN TELL EVERYBODY. THAT THIS IS YOUR SONG. IT MAY BE QUITE SIMPLE BUT, NOW THAT IT'S DONE. I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND. I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND THAT I PUT DOWN IN WORDS...

How wonderful life is, now you're in the world.