I'm a graduate student and future youth services librarian. A Nerdfighter, Whovian, and bibliophile. This is a collection of things I love, mostly book related, especially Harry Potter, Jane Austen, and John Green. .gr_custom_container_1340417529 { /* customize your Goodreads widget container here*/ border: 1px solid gray; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 300px } .gr_custom_header_1340417529 { /* customize your Goodreads header here*/ border-bottom: 1px solid gray; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; font-size: 120% } .gr_custom_each_container_1340417529 { /* customize each individual book container here */ width: 100%; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } .gr_custom_book_container_1340417529 { /* customize your book covers here */ overflow: hidden; height: 60px; float: left; margin-right: 4px; width: 39px; } .gr_custom_author_1340417529 { /* customize your author names here */ font-size: 10px; } .gr_custom_tags_1340417529 { /* customize your tags here */ font-size: 10px; color: gray; } .gr_custom_rating_1340417529 { /* customize your rating stars here */ float: right; } Blaine's bookshelf: currently-reading My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve Share book reviews and ratings with Blaine, and even join a book club on Goodreads. 2012 Reading Challenge Blaine has read 55 books toward her goal of 150 books. hide 55 of 150 (36%) view books Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay…small acts of kindness and love.
I've never understood people who insist that every kid's book must have a happy ending. For the fact is that not every ending in real life is happy. On the contrary. Understand that I didn't like sad endings - I wept copious tears over the deaths of Old Yeller and Charlotte the spider and shook my figurative fist at their unfortunate fates - but I learned through reading that their endings reflected reality. And this helped equip me to assume, in due course, the role of adult in an uncertain world. Imagine the shock if I had only been exposed to happy endings, because I avidly believed in the reality of all the worlds i encountered in reading.
- Michael Cart in his Carte Blanche article "A Difficult & Complex Art", Booklist 3/15/14 issue
The sky darkened even more and I thought of all those little stars, all the ones we couldn't see, hidden out there in the dark, sparkling without anyone seeing them at all. I didn't mind being that sort of star, the kind no one saw but still held its own small part of the sky.
The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love...
I found out something about words. There are plenty of words I can put on paper, words I can see with my eyes and scribble with my hand, that I never had the guts to say with my mouth.
Sometimes, I used to think I was brave; but I don't believe that anymore.
And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word is so fucking big and loud, it's the only thing anyone ever hears when your name is spoken.
And whenever that happens to us, all the other words that make us the same disappear in its shadow.
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