#melanie gideon

[bradburyshriver]

“A stranger named pain had moved into the house that was my body. It whispered that it had come to live with me forever.” -Melanie Gideon

[compendio]

Na primeira metade da vida, cada minuto leva um ano para passar, mas, na segunda metade, cada ano leva um minuto.

Esposa 22

[compendio]

Sou o tipo de pessoa que gosta de imaginar o pior, de forma que o pior nunca pode me pegar de surpresa.

Esposa 22

[compendio]

Omita palavras inventadas.

Esposa 22

[compendio]

Fazer amor não é diversão. O amor não é um copo de refresco vazio que se enche de novo magicamente. A gente mesmo tem que tratar de encher (Esse é o segredo do casamento).

Esposa 22

[compendio]

Pela minha experiência, é a vida não examinada que vale a pena viver.

Esposa 22

[fiction-quotes]

When I was a child, my father forbade me to read science fiction or fantasy. Trash of the highest order, he said. He didn't want me muddying up my young, impressionable mind with crap. If it wasn't worthy of being reviewed in the Times, it did not make it onto our bookshelves.

So while my classmates gleefully dove into The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Borrowers, I was stuck reading Old Yellow.

My saving grace – I was the most popular girl in my class. That's not saying much; it was easy to be popular at that age. All you had to do was wear your hair in French braids, tell your friends your parents let you drink grape soda every night at dinner, and take any dare. I stood in a bucket of hot water for five minutes without having to pee. I ate four New York System wieners (with onions) in one sitting. I cut my own bangs and – bam! – I was queen of the class.

As a result I was invited on sleepovers practically every weekend, and it was there that I cheated. I skipped the séances and the Ouija board. I crept into my sleeping bag with a flashlight, zipped it up tight, and pored through those contraband books. I fell into Narnia. I tessered with Meg and Charles Wallace; I lived under the floorboards with Arrietty and Pod.

I think it was precisely because those books were forbidden that they lived on in me long past the time that they should have. For whatever reason, I didn't outgrow them. I was constantly on the lookout for the secret portal, the unmarked door that would lead me to another world.

I never thought I would actually find it.

  —  Valley of the Moon (Melanie Gideon)

[fiction-quotes]

“...are you the kind of person who believes the future moves toward them? Or are you the kind of person who believes they move toward the future?”

  —  Valley of the Moon (Melanie Gideon)